Human resource management practices and faculty related variables: Relationships with faculty's desire for union memberships in selected C-force member schools

• Main Author: Cruz, Jocelyn P.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2005
• Subjects: Personnel management; Labor union members; Collective bargaining > Teachers; Educational Leadership
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_doctoral/61; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1060&context=etd_doctoral
• Institution: De La Salle University

The study sought to determine the relationships of teacher related variables (demographics), human resources management practices of the school, and faculty members desire to join a union. The respondents employed in this study are teachers from selected private schools who are members of the Cabanatuan Forum on Catholic Education. With the use of descriptive-correlational designs, 224 teachers from the said schools were surveyed. Data were gathered through the use of the survey instrument that were analyzed employing various statistical tools such as one-way tabulations and cross tabulations, descriptive statistics, mean and standard deviations of numerical responses for profiling. Chi-square test of two independent samples was also used to determine whether the facultys satisfaction with his or her schools HR practices is related to his or her desire to unionize. Moreover factor analysis, and general linear models for binary responses (using probit and logit functions as dependent variables) were used to determine which factors have significant relationship with the facultys desire to unionize as well as to predict whether a faculty will join a union or not. Findings of the study revealed that the respondents could be described as follows: (1) Majority are female who are mostly married and single, (2) Majority of them are young whose ages range from 18-30, and are college De La Salle University Faculty Related Variables and Human Resource Management Practices vii graduates, (3) Majority work full- time and teach in the high school (4) Majority of them have been teaching for less than 11 years and have been with the school for same number of years, and (5) Majority of them earn salaries amounting to less than eleven thousand that could support only 60% of their household expenses. The results of the study showed that majority of the HRM practices included in the study were observed in respondents schools. However, there were practices which were perceived to exist in their school only by a minority of respondents, namely: (1) allowing faculty to become a member of the hiring board, (2) having HR department or section, (3) having grievance procedure using outside referee, (4) having a teacher recognition program for exemplary performance, and (5) having free access to technologies for communication. Findings as regards respondents perceived satisfaction with the HRM practices included in the study reveal a very positive result. Combining the satisfied and very satisfied responses, majority of the teachers have expressed that they are satisfied / very satisfied with the HRM practices. Only in the following practices that only minority of the teachers have expressed that they are satisfied/very satisfied, namely: (1) having competitive salary , (2) provision of medical benefits, (3) existence of an HR Department , (4) teacher De La Salle University Faculty Related Variables and Human Resource Management Practices viii recognition program for exemplary performance, and (5) free access to technologies for communication, and , (6) grievance procedure using outside referree. As regards the other practices, majority of the respondents stated that they are satisfied / very satisfied. Furthermore, the result of the study showed that there is a significant correlation between joining a union and human resource management practices. Majority of the respondents (i.e.127 out of 161) said they would join a union. Furthermore, majority of the respondents (i.e 139 out of 161) said that their membership in a teachers union is either strongly or slightly affected by the Human Resources Management (HRM) practices of their school. Chi- Square tests of independence indicate that those who said that HRM practices affect their joining a teachers union will most likely join a union. On the other hand, those who said that the HRM practices do not affect their joining teachers union have 50-50 chance of joining one. The study revealed that the only faculty related variable that came out, as a significant predictor for unionism is age. The younger the faculty member the more likely he/she will join a union and vice versa. On the other hand, (a) Scholarship and fellowship for teachers and (b) periodic review of compensation plan came out as significant predictors for HRM practices. Provisions for scholarship and fellowship for teachers are negatively correlated with the De La Salle University Faculty Related Variables and Human Resource Management Practices ix desire to join a union (the more dissatisfied respondents are with the provisions for scholarships and fellowship grants the more likely they will join a union), while review of compensation plan is positively correlated with joining union (although they are satisfied with the periodic review of their compensation plan they will still join a union). The study concluded that there is a correlation between human resource management practices and faculty members desire to join a union. Furthermore, age could significantly predict teachers desire for union membership. Among HRM practices, scholarship and fellowship for teachers and periodic review of compensation plan came out as significant predictors for teachers desire for union membership.