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TEACHERS’ PROFESSIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT,
ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR AND EMPOWERMENT

MARLO DINEROS ALVAREZ

A Dissertation
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN EDUCATION
Major in Educational Management
University of Eastern Philippines
University Town, Northern Samar

April 2013
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APPROVAL SHEET
This dissertation titled TEACHERS’ PROFESSIONAL AND
ORGANIZATIONAL
COMMITMENT,
ORGANIZATIONAL

CITIZENSHIP
BEHAVIOR AND EMPOWERMENT prepared and submitted by MARLO
DINEROS ALVAREZ, in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Education major in
Educational Management is hereby recommended for acceptance
and approval.
TITO M. CABILI, PhD
Adviser
Date:_____________

Recommended for acceptance and approval:
PANEL OF EXAMINERS
BENJAMIN D. VARELA, PhD
Member
Date: ___________

ROGELIO A. BANAGBANAG, DALL
Member
Date: ______________


RONATO S. BALLADO, Ed.D.
Member
Date: ____________

LEAH A. DE ASIS, PhD
Chairman
Date: ____________

Accepted and approved in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in
Education major in Educational Management.
VIRGINIA G. BALANON, PhD
Director, UEP Graduate Studies
Date: ______________
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ABSTRACT
Title

TEACHERS’ PROFESSIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL

COMMITMENT,
ORGANIZATIONAL
CITIZENSHIP
BEHAVIOR AND EMPOWERMENT

:

Researcher :

MARLO DINEROS ALVAREZ

Adviser

:

TITO M. CABILI, PhD

School

:


UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PHILIPPINES

School Year :

2012-2013

Degree
:
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
___________________________________________________________
This

study

focused

on

the


determining

teachers’

professional and organizational commitment, organizational
citizenship

behavior

and

their

empowerment.

It

aimed


further to determine the profile of teachers in terms of
age,

gender,

experience,
assignments
location,
commitment

educational
year/grade

aside

from

degree

of


in

attainment,

taught,

subjects

teaching,

school

professional

terms

years

of


teaching

taught,
type

and

affective,

of

and

other
school

organizational

continuance


and

normative, organizational citizenship behavior in terms of
conscientiousness,
level

of

civic

empowerment

decision-making,

in

virtue,
terms


professional

courtesy
of

sense

growth,

and
of

altruism,
respect,

self-efficacy,

autonomy in scheduling and impact, school heads’ use of
power in terms of expert, reward, referent, coercive and


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legitimate power as perceived by elementary and secondary
school

teachers

assigned

in

the

central

and

barangay

schools in the three geographical areas: Balicuatro area,
Central area and Pacific area and Catubig Valley.
A

test

difference

was

conducted

between

the

to

find

out

professional

if

and

there

was

a

organizational

commitment, organizational citizenship behavior, perceived
level of empowerment and school heads’
perceived
assigned

by
in

teachers
elementary

in

the

and

three

use of power as

geographical

areas

schools

those

secondary

and

assigned also in the barangay and central schools. A test
to determine the difference was also conducted between the
perceived level of empowerment of teachers with respect to
their profile: age, gender, educational attainment, years
of

teaching

assignments

experience,
aside

from

year

or

teaching,

grade

school

taught,
type

and

other
school

location. And a test was conducted to find out if there was
a

relationship

organizational

between

the

degree

commitment,

of

professional

organizational

and

citizenship

behavior and school heads’ use of power as perceived by
teachers and their level of empowerment.
The
through

mixed

method

combining

descriptive-correlational

qualitative-analytical

approach
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quantitative
design
was

research

aided
utilized.

by

a
The

questionnaire together with observations and unstructured
interviews served as the instrument for collecting data.
The 4,511 teachers, 3,280 teachers in the elementary and
1,231

teachers

stratified

in

the

secondary,

proportional

by

were

districts

sampled
and

using

by

level

(elementary and secondary) in the three geographical areas
and the total sample used was 358, 262 from elementary and
96 from secondary.
The profile of the teachers showed that a majority of
the teachers were female and were in their middle years of
the teaching career. Most of the teachers earned units in
masteral,
doing

were

multiple

assigned

handling

multiple

assignments

in

central

aside

grade
from

schools

or

year

teaching

levels,
and

(elementary)

were
and

general/national high schools (secondary). A majority of
the teachers were teaching multiple subjects.
As to their

affective professional commitment, both

the elementary and secondary school teachers were averagely
committed.

Under

continuance

professional

commitment,

elementary and secondary school teachers in Balicuatro area
were very highly committed and highly committed and the
rest of elementary and secondary teachers in the Central
and Pacific area and Catubig Valley were highly committed.
For the normative professional commitment, both elementary
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and secondary school teachers in the Balicuatro and Central
area were highly committed while elementary school teachers
in

the

Pacific

committed

and

area

and

secondary

Catubig

Valley

teachers

were

were

highly

very

highly

committed.
It was determined that the affective organizational
commitment of elementary and secondary school teachers were
both

average

commitment,

while

in

elementary

the
and

continuance
secondary

organizational

school

teachers

assigned in the Central and Pacific area and Catubig Valley
were

high

elementary

and

those

school

assigned

teachers

in

the

were

Balicuatro

highly

committed

area,
and

secondary school teachers were very highly committed. Both
elementary

and

secondary

school

teachers

in

the

three

geographical areas were averagely committed except for the
secondary

school

teachers

assigned

in

the

central

area

because they have high commitment.
Among

the

dimensions

of

organizational

citizenship

behavior of teachers in three geographical areas, only the
degree of conscientiousness and civic virtue were very high
while

the

degree

of

courtesy

of

the

elementary

and

secondary school teachers assigned in the Central area was
very high. The degree of courtesy of the elementary school
teachers assigned in the Balicuatro area was high while the
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secondary school teachers had very high degree of courtesy.
In the Pacific area and Catubig Valley, elementary school
teachers

were

highly

courteous

and

secondary

school

teachers were very highly courteous. The degree of altruism
of elementary and secondary school teachers in the Central
area was very high and while for elementary and secondary
school teachers in the Pacific area and Catubig Valley was
high. And in Balicuatro area, elementary school teachers
had

high

degree

of

altruism

and

the

secondary

school

teachers had very high.
The level of empowerment of elementary and secondary
school teachers in terms of sense of respect, professional
growth and self-efficacy in the three geographical areas
was

very

secondary

high.
school

For

decision-making,

teachers

in

the

elementary

Balicuatro

area

and
were

fairly empowered, elementary and secondary school teachers
in the Central area were highly empowered. In the Pacific
area and Catubig Valley, elementary school teachers were
highly empowered but secondary school teachers were less
empowered. The level of impact as perceived by elementary
and secondary school teachers in the Central and Pacific
area

and

Catubig

Valley

was

high

while

the

elementary

school teachers assigned in the Balicuatro area were highly
empowered

and

secondary

school
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teachers

were

fairly

empowered. The level of autonomy in scheduling the learning
tasks of elementary and secondary school teachers in the
Central and Pacific area and Catubig Valley was high while
the elementary school teachers assigned in the Balicuatro
area were highly empowered while secondary school teachers
were fairly empowered.
In terms of the degree of impact of school heads’ use
of power, it was found out that expert, referent, reward
and legitimate powers of school heads had high impact to
teachers in three geographical areas. It was also found out
that

there

was

an

average

impact

of

coercive

power

of

school heads to teachers in the Balicuatro area.
For the test of difference between the professional
commitment,
citizenship

organizational
behavior,

commitment,

level

of

organizational

empowerment

and

school

heads' use of power in the three geographical areas, the
statistical analysis revealed the following:
There was a significant difference in the level of
affective professional commitment of teachers in the three
geographical areas.
It was also found out that there was a significant
difference in the level of the continuance organizational
commitment of teachers in the three geographical areas.

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Of the four dimensions of organizational citizenship
behavior in the three geographical areas, only altruism was
found to have significant difference.
Of the six dimensions of teacher empowerment in the
three geographical areas, the level of decision-making and
impact were found to have significant difference in the
three geographical areas.
It

was

found

out

that

the

degree

of

impact

of

referent, coercive and legitimate powers of school heads
were significantly different as perceived by teachers in
the three geographical areas.
For the test of differences, continuance and normative
professional

commitments

were

found

to

be

significantly

different between elementary and secondary school teachers
while affective professional commitment was found to have
no difference.
There was a significant difference in the affective
organizational
and

secondary

commitment
school

of

teachers

teachers

while

between

elementary

continuance

and

normative were found no significant difference.
There
virtue,

was

a

courtesy

significant
and

difference

altruism

of

in

the

teachers

civic
between

elementary and secondary level while for conscientiousness
there was no difference.
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Professional
between

growth,

elementary

and

significantly

different

making,

of

sense

self-efficacy
secondary

while

respect

and

the

and

impact

level

teachers

levels

autonomy

of

in

were

decision-

scheduling

of

learning task were found to have no difference.
The degree of impact of expert, reward, coercive and
legitimate powers of school heads between elementary and
secondary

school

teachers

were

significantly

different

while for referent power there was no difference.
A

test

difference
civic

established

between

virtue

of

the

that

there

degree

teachers

of

assigned

was

a

significant

conscientiousness
in

the

central

and
and

barangay schools.
The degree of impact of expert, reward, referent and
coercive powers of school heads towards teachers assigned
in

the

central

and

barangay

schools

were

significantly

different.
For the test of difference, the computations revealed
that age, gender, educational attainment and school type
were determinants of empowerment level of teachers while
the

years

taught,

of

teaching

subjects

taught

experience,
and

school

grade

or

locations

year

were

significantly related to their level of empowerment.

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level
not

In the test of relationship, the results showed that
professional

and

organizational

commitment:

affective,

continuance and normative were significantly related to the
perceived level of empowerment of teachers.
Dimensions of organizational citizenship behavior such
as conscientiousness, civic virtue, courtesy and altruism
level were significantly related to the perceived level of
empowerment of teachers.
School heads’ use of power is significantly related to
the level of empowerment of teachers. Specifically, expert,
reward and legitimate powers were significantly related to
the level of empowerment while referent and coercive powers
were not significantly related.

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