INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL OF MODERNIZATION IN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE

Abstract

The study was conducted to find out the best fit model for teachers organizational commitment of public-school teachers in the three Districts of Division of Davao Occidental. A descriptive-correlational research design was used in order to attain its objectives. The respondents were selected using the universal random sampling technique. Adapted survey questionnaires consisting of items designed mainly to answer the problems of the study were used. Levels were measured using mean and standard deviation while significant relationship and influence were measured using Pearson-r and multiple regression analysis. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to generate the best fit model for organizational commitment of teachers. On the one hand, the level of organizational support, leadership skills of school heads and organizational commitment of teachers were both high. On the other hand, the level of parental organizational support was high. Meanwhile, there was a significant influence between organizational support, organizational value, leadership skills of school head and teachers organizational commitment. Model 5 is the best fit model based on the indices of the goodness of fit. It was found out that organizational support in terms of organizational reward, procedural justice and perceived supervisor support, organizational values in terms of economic values, social values, spiritual values, professional values and physical values were directly significant in predicting teachers organizational commitment while leadership skills in terms of interdependence skill and conceptual skill was found to be significant predictor of teachers organizational commitment. Keywords: Education, leadership, organizational support, organizational value, leadership skills, teachers commitment, structural equation model, Philippines.

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