School Culture and Teachers' Work Values

This book focused on determining the effect of the awareness of school culture to the work values of the teachers in Masapang Elementary School, Victoria, Laguna, Philippines. School culture cannot be easily changed over a period of time. It is already part of the daily routine of the people moving inside the school - teachers, learners and stakeholders. But having the awareness of the different school culture is something that the authors investigated, whether or not it affects the teachers' work values. Twenty elementary teachers became the respondent of this study. The school head, which is also one of the authors, introduced a 45-item work values survey and 40-item school culture survey to determine the work characteristics of teachers and their perception of school culture. Then the authors conducted a series of school learning action cell (SLAC) that centered on the discussion of different school culture in four dimensions - individualism-collectivism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, and masculinity-femininity. To find out if their work values changed, a post survey was conducted. It was found out that work values significantly increased after the conduct of SLAC.

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Elymar A. Pascual, EdD es actualmente Maestro Maestro II de la Escuela Secundaria Nacional Integrada Talangan, y Coordinador de Investigación de Maestros de Nagcarlan, Laguna, Filipinas. Danica Trisha N. Juarez (Grado 12 GAS), Alexandra Allyson S. Nera y Neliza C. Pitargue (ambas Grado 12 ABM) son líderes estudiantiles activas de la misma institución.