Abstract:
The research is about determining the correlation between Degrees of Employee
Silence and the Perception of Participatory Decision Making in the Office of Students
Affairs and Services of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. It was made on a
very quantitative approach which used a Likert Scale survey instrument to gather data.
Decision making is a vital process in an organization. Through this study, the
relationship of the perception of decision making process with a phenomenon that is said
to exist in most organizations today, Silence, will be measured. Aside from the
correlation of the variables, the association of the socio-demographics of the
respondents with the variables were also took into consideration and tested. Results
show that the respondents are silent only to a certain degree. It was also found that
there is a strong uphill positive correlation between Degrees of Employee Silence and
Perception of Participatory Decision Making. There were no significant association found
between the socio-demographics of the employees and the variables. To future studies,
it is recommended that the research be conducted in an organization with multilevel
management. Moreover, a study on a qualitative or experimental approach must be
used.
