Research On The Influence Of Sincere Leadership On Civilservants’ Organizational Sinence

Silence is a common phenomenon in organizations.In order to avoid negative consequences or it is difficult to estimate the significance of their opinions to the organization,individuals in the organization adopt the code of conduct of reserving personal opinions on suggestions related to organizational development or security.At present,most of the researches on organizational silence are focused on hospitals,schools and all kinds of enterprises,while the researches on public sector organizational silence are less.As the administrative subject of public sector,civil servants play the dual roles of public manager and public service man,and their organizational silence will cause serious harm.Reducing civil servants’ organizational silence is of practical significance to promote the construction of service-oriented and clean government.Through literature review,the existing research on the antecedents of civil servants’ organizational silence is mainly reflected in the fields of civil servants’ personality traits,work psychology and administrative culture,and only a few studies explore its impact on civil servants’ organizational silence from the perspective of public sector leaders.In fact,leaders are the objects of the grass-roots public servants’ direct advice and suggestions,and to a certain extent,they affect the work efficiency,career planning and the smooth operation of the public sector.Based on this,this paper first defines and summarizes the sincere leadership,civil servants’ organizational silence,psychological security and power distance.Secondly,based on the theory of evolutionary psychology and leadership theory,this paper explores the influence mechanism of sincere leadership on the organizational silence of civil servants,the mediating effect of psychological security on the above relationship and the regulating effect of power distance.Finally,an empirical study of 230 civil servants in Harbin city of Heilongjiang Province shows that:（1）Sincere leadership has a negative impact on the organizational silence of civil servants;（2）Sincere leadership has a positive impact on the psychological security of civil servants;（3）Psychological security has a negative impact on civil servants’ organizational silence;（4）Psychological security plays an intermediary role between sincere leadership and civil servants’ organizational silence,that is,sincere leadership affects civil servants’ organizational silence through psychological security;（5）Power distance positively moderates the relationship between sincere leadership and civil servants’ organizational silence,that is,the lower the power distance of civil servants,the stronger the inhibitory effect of sincere leadership on subordinates’ silence behavior.Therefore,to alleviate the organizational silence of civil servants can be carried out from the following aspects: first,optimize the human resource management of the public sector,start with the recruitment,training and development of civil servants,and provide civil servants with positive leadership characteristics such as sincere leadership;Second,establish a two-way communication mechanism to increase the psychological security of civil servants;Third,the use of differentiated management to meet the needs of groups with different power distances.