Year: 2018
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Teachers are at times caught between performing task for the common good and to serve personal interest.This mixed method concurrent triangulation study delved into the influence of ethical climate on teachers' job performance.Complete enumeration of the 30 respondentteachers who have been working at Laoang National High School, Laoang, Northern Samar for at least one full school year were involved.Ethical Climate Questionnaire (Victor and Cullen, 1988) and teachers' Individual Performance Competency Rating Form (IPCRF) from the previous four school years were utilized to gather quantitative data while in-depth semistructured interview and observation were used to collect qualitative data.Descriptive Statistics, Multiple Regression Analysis, and Thematic Analysis (Clarke and Braun, 2014) were utilized to analyze the data.Teachers' responses exhibited that academic freedom, no solicitation policy, and individualistic decision-making defined principle-based ethical climate; technical assistance, community involvement, and moral support characterized benevolent ethical climate; while career advancement and defend comfort zone described egoist ethical climate.Further, regression analysis revealed that principle-based ethical climate had significant negative influence on teachers' performance.It is recommended that same study be replicated on expanded breadth to reassure its findings.
Author: Michael Jarito Froilan
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2802665610