A theory of Filipino organizational behavior in education: An anthropological view

• Main Author: Kikuchi, Yasushi
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1990
• Subjects: Filipinos > Kinship; Educational anthropology; Organizational behavior; School management and organization; Educational Leadership
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_doctoral/634
• Institution: De La Salle University

This paper aims to accurately describe Philippine society, particularly the Filipino kinship system and corporate group, and show the emerging pattern within this society. The manifestation and significance of the Filipino kinship or corporate group to educational management is specifically illustrated within the school context. The study also shows the historical underpinnings of Philippine society and compare the Filipino kinship system and corporate group with those of other Asian countries. Materials used for the study were the ethnographic materials culled by the writer through his more than a decade of field research on Philippine society. The materials were accompanied with an extensive review of available literature. The writer chose representative samples of both urban and ethnic cultures illustrative of the Filipino corporate and kinship groups. With respect to Filipino urban corporate and kinship groups and practices, the study selected Metro Manila, the center for political and economic life and where various cultures and regional groups throughout the archipelago converge. The Alangan and Batangan minority groups, both sub-groups of the Mangyan cultural minority of Mindoro Island, were used as samples of Filipino ethnic culture.The emergent corporate group in Philippine society is essentially and structurally informal and personal. Relationships with kinsmen are emphasized and prioritized over those with strangers or non-kinsmen. Corporate group formations have not transcended personal or local interests to enable the development of larger organizations crossing various social lines. The primary bases of corporate grouping remains to be social values, consanguineal and affinal relations, and blood or ritual kinship ties. These foundations are complemented by additional adhesive mechanisms like kin residence in a single locality and the principle of reciprocity. By virtue of the foregoing social configuration, Philippine society can rightfully be categorized as uncrystallized.