29 research outputs found
LIVED EXPERIENCES OF EARLY PREGNANCY AMONG TEENAGERS: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY
Get PDFThis case study attempts to determine the lived experiences of early pregnancy among high and low performing students in terms of the causes, effects, challenges and their coping mechanisms. The naturalistic paradigm was used in the study with the purposively chosen informants with varied tools to cross-check their responses. Results show that curiosity, lack of sexual knowledge, financial and family problems and uncontrolled emotions cause pregnancy among teenagers. Teenage mothers face a lot of challenges after pregnancy like providing proper care and needs of their child. High performing teenage mothers are college levels and work for a living to support the needs of their child. Low performing teenage mothers ended up as housewives. Teenage mothers have less possibility to finish their studies after engaging in early pregnancy. Taking care of the baby and providing financial assistance are challenges they encountered and tried to cope up with. The academic performance, the financial status and support of the family of teenage mothers determine if they can pursue their studies and achieve their dreams in life. Sex and sexuality education should not just be a concept but should be developed further as a complete discipline and much more research should be conducted to that regard
The impact of organizational culture on employee behavior and organizational performance in the customs brokerage companies in Metro Manila
No full textThis study describes the organizational culture and the extent of its influence on employee behavior and organizational performance. The researcher chose in particular the companies in the customs brokerage industry.With the use of descriptive and causal type of research designs, a survey was conducted to 546 employees and 57 managers from a sample of 57 customs brokerage companies to answer the hypotheses posed at the start of the study.The data gathered through the use of the organizational culture survey instrument were analyzed employing various statistical tools. Means and percentages were computed to describe the data while the relationships between and among variables were established and analyzed using the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Analysis, Stepwise Regression Procedure, and Canonical Correlation Analysis.The study presented (1) the profile of the customs brokerage companies in terms of the nature of business, duration of operation, form of / type of ownership, and size of work force (2) the organizational characteristics of the customs brokerage companies in terms of innovation and risk-taking, attention to details, outcome orientation, people orientation, team orientation, aggressiveness, and stability (3) employee behavior in terms of job satisfaction, job performance, and organizational commitment and (4) company performance in terms of financial condition, level of sales, level of productivity, and turnover.
Findings revealed that: (1) the companies have strong organizational culture with innovation and risk-taking as the most predominant culture characteristics and aggressiveness as the least predominant culture having significant influence on employee behavior, with the set predictors of people orientation, attention to details, team orientation, stability, and innovation and risk-taking for job satisfaction (2) attention to details, team orientation, and people orientation for job performance and people orientation, attention to details, and team orientation for organizational commitment (3) among the organizational culture characteristics, people orientation is significantly related to company performance in terms of level of sales and productivity only and (4) taken collectively, the organizational culture characteristics have no significant influence on company performance.Based on the results and its implications, several recommendations are forwarded which can be of practical use to the customs brokerage companies and other similar establishments. Among them are: (1) maintaining high level of job satisfaction among employees (2) strengthening workers\u27 organizational commitment (4) ensuring high level of productivity and sales of companies (5) reinforcing high level of organizational culture and (6) adoption of the research instrument and paradigm on the impact of organizational culture on employee behavior and organizational performance
