The Correlation between Degrees of Employee Silence and Perception of Participatory Decision Making in a Public Organization

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.