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Towards an Enhanced Occupational Health and Safety Model for Dental Professionals

BRIAN ENDAYA ESPORLAS — 2018-02-21

The objective of this study was to develop an occupational health and safety model for dental professionals based on level of awareness and degree of compliance. A total of 226 dental professionals that includes Dentist, Dental Laboratory Technician and Dental hygienist from the 3 selected economic growth centres of the Philippines, namely NCR, Cebu, and Davao, participated in the study. Survey forms to measure the respondents’ level of awareness and degree of compliance to the Occupational health and safety standards (OHSS) key areas were given to the respondents during dental conventions. Likert scale revealed 4.28 awareness score that means the respondents are moderately aware with OHSS standard and a 3.84 compliance score which means compliant to some extent only. Correlation result of 0.56 revealed a positive relationship between respondents’ awareness and compliance, hence and increase in awareness warrant an increase to compliance. P value of 0.000 indicate significant difference between respondents’ level of awareness and compliance. Regression equation revealed that 77.7% of the total OHSS practices is congruent of awareness and compliance. The remaining 22.3% may be due to other factors not included in this study. Awareness and compliance plays a vital role for the realization of a total occupational health and safety for dental professionals. A campaign to increase awareness of dental professionals to OHSS is a must to increase their degree of compliance.

Developing Standard Mesh Diagram for Filipinos

BRIAN ENDAYA ESPORLAS — 2018-02-21

The objective of this study was to develop a standard mesh diagram for Filipino that would serve as a template guide for the cephalometric analysis interpretation. Purposive sampling technique was used in determining the target population. The study was limited to sixty subjects. Thirty males and thirty females who met the criteria set by the researcher: must be currently enrolled in Centro Escolar University, Manila ages 18 to 24 years old, with esthetically accepted soft tissue profile, no history of orthodontic treatment, with complete set of teeth up to second molar, 3rd molar is not considered, with 6mm or less dental crowding, with class I (angle) molar relationship and of Filipino decent up to 3rd generation. Lateral cephalogram were taken for each of them. Male tends to have a longer upper facial height compare with the female. Male measured with a longer cranial base length compare with the female, t –test showed that the discrepancy is insignificant. Both soft tissue profiles of the two groups showed minimal protrusion. Super imposition revealed that the male’s soft tissue is a little protrusive than the female’s, t-test revealed that the difference is insignificant. The study also proves that the male tends to have a longer facial height compare to female. Maxillary length of the male subjects is longer compare to the female group. However both maxilla of the two groups shows almost the same degree of inclination. The mandibular length of female when compared to the male subjects is the same. But the inclination of the mandible of the male group is steeper than of the female group. Upper incisors for male showed more labial tipping than the female. While lower incisors position are the same for both groups.

Employee Work Sustainability in Selected International Business Process Outsourcing Companies

GLENN SANIANO CABACANG — 2018-02-22

As organizations maximize on increasing global integration, leaders are faced with the challenges set forth by the rapidly changing international business environs. In this study, the researcher sought to evaluate the effectiveness of the cultural flexibilities of the organizations involved and the cross-cultural competence of its workers in the process of cultivating their individual work sustainability in the international business process outsourcing (IBPO) industry. The respondents of this study were 513 employees from at least twenty-five (25) identified IBPO companies distributed in different areas of Metro Manila, Philippines where their organizations cater to clients based in various parts of the world. This work produced a number of significant findings that supported the objectives as well as the hypothesis. The findings showed that those who identified themselves to belong to a group who held top level management positions, 61 years old and above, earning more than P60,001 per month, and belonging to the IBPO industry for more than 10 years, were highly satisfied with the cross-cultural literacy trainings they have gone through and been exposed to, respectively. The same group of respondents also expressed their agreement in terms of work satisfaction as well as the impact of their cross-cultural competence on their aptitude to sustain in IBPO companies. However, since the respondents did not classify their satisfaction in the extreme affirmative end, IBPO companies are left with much room for improvement. This result calls for introducing adjustments, changes, and adaptations to human resource management strategies and practices by considering any differences existing based on the demographic uniqueness of employees. Specifically, IBPO companies’ cross-cultural literacy training needs more attention and dedication. For future studies, the researcher recommended to also consider other features – like social perspectives within organizations and in wide-ranging societies to appreciate how these factors could change, or not change at all, the results of this endeavor.

The Recruitment and Training Practices of a Health and Beauty Network Marketing Company in Singapore

ATHENA GEORGENE UY ANG — 2018-02-22

The Problem
This study was undertaken to evaluate the recruitment and training practices of a Health and Beauty Network Marketing Company in Singapore.

Scope and Delimitations of the Study
The respondents of the study were 385 distributors from Singapore of the subject network marketing company who are actively engaged in the business’ South Asia Pacific Region operations.
A limitation initially thought of is how well the participants represent the typical network marketing participants.Further delimitation is that in order to obtain a more accurate response, the ideal situation would be to have respondents from different types of network marketing businesses. This would allow the stratification of the respondents by type of business.

Research Methodology
The researcher employed the descriptive method of research in order to comprehensively analyze the problems as it delved to collect significant information about the effectiveness and impact of the recruiting and training practices of the network marketing distributors. Through the survey questionnaire, the researcher used the data collected in describing, documenting, analyzing and interpreting the results to validate the hypotheses. 385 respondents were randomly selected from the independent distributors in Singapore who are actively engaging in various sales and marketing activities conducted to enhance and develop their own network spheres.As to descriptive statistics, frequency and percentage distribution, mean rating scales, paired sample t-test and normal distribution were used. As to inferential statistics, analysis of variancewas utilized to measure which among the recruitment and training practices have significant relationship with the satisfaction of respondents.

Findings and Conclusions
Based on the findings generated from the data gathered, the researcher has drawn the following conclusions:
1.0 Most of the respondents belonged to the 40 to 49 years age group, females, and are married. Majority are Bachelor’s Degree holders whose main source of income is the network marketing business, with less than one year experience as a distributor.
2.0 Regardless of the respondents’ age, gender, civil status, highest level of educational attainment, main source of income, average monthly income, and number of years of being a network marketing distributor, majority moderately agreed on the Recruitment and Training Practices of the Health and Beauty Network Marketing Company.
3.0 Consequently, respondents moderately agreed on their level of satisfaction as a network marketing distributor regardless of their age, gender, civil status, highest level of educational attainment, main source of income, average monthly income, and number of years of being a network marketing distributor.
4.0 Overall, the respondents’ evaluation of the recruitment and training practices of the subject Health and Beauty Network Marketing Company did not differ significantly when they were grouped according to their age, gender, and civil status. Significant differences in their evaluation were found, however, when they were grouped according to their highest educational attainment, main source of income, average monthly income, and the number of years they had been network marketing distributors. Respondents with higher educational attainment, whose main source of income is the network marketing business, earning higher monthly income, and with longer years of experience as distributors had a higher evaluation of the recruitment and training practices of the Health and Beauty Network Marketing Company.
5.0 Furthermore, respondents’ level of satisfaction showed no significant difference when grouped according to the respondents’ age and civil status. When grouped according to their gender, highest level of educational attainment, main source of income, average monthly income, and number of years of being a network marketing distributor, significant differences in their level of satisfaction were found.
6.0 As reported by the respondents, pricing ranked as the most encountered problem in recruiting and training practices of the network marketing company. An improvement on product knowledge ranked second, followed by problems on selling and sales promotion where respondents reported a lack of sales training. As for problems encountered on distribution network, difficulty to grow network ranked first. The least encountered problem the respondents reported was on customer relationship. As for the problems encountered by the network marketing company in terms of training, lack of adequate training ranked first.