Group Behavior of Lemery Senior High School Teachers: Basis for Human Resource Development Program

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Lemery Senior High School is just a newly established academic institution, the people within the organization wanted to carve its own organization culture that will be the foundation of how they will perform within. The researcher aimed to assess how the teachers behave within the group. The outcome will be the basis of the proposed Human Resource Development program to intensify the group support system among teachers in Lemery Senior High School that will result in attaining the Department of Education vision and mission.

METHODS

The descriptive method of research was used in the study. The researcher distributed questionnaires to 30 pioneer teachers.It was designed to collect information about the group behaviour of Lemery Senior High School teachers. Furthermore, the researcher used statistical treatments such as frequency, weighted mean and Likert scale to analyze the gathered data.

RESULTS

Considering the demographic profile of the teachers, the study described how teachers behave amidst the four indicators of group behavior; diversity, group role, peer influence and conflict handling styles. The result shows that teachers strongly believe that there is diversity among teachers. Most of them preferred the "encourager" role on a team. They have an exchange influence to co-workers and other peers. They also prefer a problem-solving style of conflict handling. Thus, there is no significant difference between the four indicators of group behaviour of Lemery SHS teachers when grouped to age, civil status, educational attainment, position, employment status and nature of past work. However, there is a significant difference in team roles when group according to sex.

DISCUSSIONS

The result revealed the need for a Human Resource Development program focused on intensifying the group support system of teachers to constantly attain the Department of Education vision and mission. This may be achieved through the inclusion of diversity concepts and discrimination to GAD training, HRD seminar to school heads, team building activities and mentoring system and formation of the grievance committee and open guidance counseling for teachers.