Hubungan Tarikan Penampilan Dan Personaliti Dengan Kecenderungan Membisu Dalam Kalangan Pekerja Malaysia Di Organisasi Jerman

This study aimed to identify the relationship between interpersonal
attraction and personality with silence of subordinates in
multinational organisation. The subordinates are Malaysian and
the immediate superior is a German. Respondents were consisted
of 360 subordinates of various positions reporting to an immediate
German superior. The interpersonal attraction was measured based
on the instrument of The Measurement of Interpersonal Attraction
and Homophily, while the silence was measured based on the model
of Dinamika Organisasi Membisu. Personalities of the respondents
were measured based on The Measurement of Personality and
Characteristics to differentiate between extrovert and introvert
personalities. The findings of the pilot study showed that the value of
Cronbach alpha of interpersonal attraction is .80, personality .78 and
.88 for silence. A descriptive statistic analysis namely the frequency
and percentage as well as the inferential statistic in the form of
Pearson correlation coefficient was used to test the hypothesis
of the study at significant level of .05. The findings showed that
the interpersonal attraction of superior was able to influence the
communication of subordinate-superior. The findings showed that
extrovert subordinates had intermediate perceptions through the
interpersonal attraction of superior. The findings of silence showed
that introvert subordinates tended to show silence towards the
superior in various situations. This matter can be identified based on
the results of t-test sample for silence (t (358) = 2.69, p <0.05). This
situation showed that, the introvert subordinates were more likely to
show silence compare to the extrovert subordinates.