THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HEALTH RISK AND WORK PRODUCTIVITY OF SELECTED HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS IN THE PHILIPPINES

Abstract

The study examines the relationship between health risk and work productivity among the selected high school teachers. it also aims to identify the profile of the respondents in terms of their age, gender, educational attainment, current position, and number of years in the service. It explores the factors associated on health risks on work productivity in terms of job design, including control over work, overtime and number of hours work, providing social support, conflict between work and family commitments, and perceived fairness and justice at work and how health risks affect the work productivity of the selected high school teachers in Caloocan High School respondents along the area of teacher performance, professional competence, work discipline, and work productivity. The study employs Descriptive Quantitative Method of Research Design because it is a research method that describes the characteristics of the population or phenomenon studied. This methodology focuses more on “what” of the research subject than the “why” of the research subject. The descriptive research method primarily focuses on describing the nature of a demographic segment, without focusing on “why” a particular phenomenon occurs. Likewise, the study employs purposive sampling techniques since purposive sampling referred to as a judgmental or expert sample, is a type of nonprobability sample. The main objective of a purposive sample is to produce a sample that can be logically assumed to be representative of the population. The respondents of the study are the License Professional Teachers (LPT) assigned at Caloocan High School and comprised Sixty (60) respondents only. Results show that most of the respondents belongs to the age bracket of 35 years and above where most of them are female respondents due to their passion is teaching, Respondents also shows to have MA units as part of their professional development since most of them are Teacher 1-111 where they need to be promoted through their number of years in the service in 3-5 years among the respondents. Likewise, factors associated on health risks on work productivity of the respondents show that job design control over work shows that it assumes a linear relationship between autonomy and outcome variables, which implies that the more autonomy workers have better which proposes the need to make decisions regarding the design and pursuit of one’s job and is considered a job demand, as it can be associated with supplemental efforts and challenges among the respondents, show that job design overtime and number of hours work shows to explains the association of overtime work hours with various stress responses among individual workers where long working hours have been regarded as a serious social and health issue such as (sudden death caused by cardiovascular or cerebrovascular disease due to overwork) and (suicide due to overwork) etc., show that job design providing social support on teachers shows that society often measures teachers’ behavioral performance using high moral standards and expect them serve as examples to correctly lead students’ learning, and teachers must assist in the promotion of the importance of education through both mentally and physically, as their psychological stress exceeds that of regular teachers which teachers encounter work stress and negative emotions which will affect their work performance and willingness to work, show that job design conflict between work and family commitment shows to explain that work, family conflict and job satisfaction for every individual function to involve a person saddled with various responsibilities that demand high level of time and energy, and to provide multiplicity of duties in relation to the factors related to work and family conflict where it ascertains that work and family conflict and commitment is associated with increased discomfort, slowing down of family contentment, job fulfillment, work assurance, and show that hob design perceived fairness and justice at work shows to examine the total effect of the fairness of justice and work, commitment, and trust to determine its function among the teachers where it emphasizes the performance of the school as a key factor to enhance professional development and improve teaching quality of a successful perceived teacher. Indeed, on the health risks affect the work productivity of the respondents, show that teacher performance shows to influence the process of changing the attitudes and behavior of students to mature human through teaching and training efforts, processes, methods, and ways of educating, and to influence the conscious and planned effort to realize learning, so that students actively develop their potential, self-control, personality, intelligence, noble character, and skills needed by them, to achieve educational goals where teacher performance is a planned effort to influence others, both individuals, groups, and society expectation by education practitioners, show that professional competency shows to use and innovate the system and achievements in the educational system, consistent and sustainable development of all spheres of society and community where training of future professionals, and the implementation of modern education that pay special attention to the criteria of professionalism of future teachers, the problems of creating an innovative learning environment, show that work discipline shows to optimize teacher performance to concrete steps in building an educational mentality that has been considered less than optimal where it improves the performance of the teacher, because teachers have a very strategic role in advancing the success and quality of education since it provides condition of competition in the world of education on every school as to credibility, quality teaching methods and provides adequate learning facilities, and show that work productivity shows to provide an impact on teachers’ productivity on their development and training which is linked with organizational activity to improve the individual performance of teachers where it plays a very significant role in raising the technological advancement, effectiveness of organizations and work productivity to become extremely necessary specially to cope with the changing demands of the teaching industry and improves the caliber of the teachers in the workplace that require skills, ability, passion, and knowledge to work, so that there can be an increase in the productivity and performance. Findings show that there is no significant correlation between the profile of the respondents and the factors associated with health risks on work productivity of selected high school teachers in Caloocan High School respondents, shows that there is no significant correlation between the profile of the respondents and how health risks affect the work productivity of the selected high school teachers in Caloocan High School respondents, and show that there is no significant correlation on the factors associated with health risks on work productivity of selected high school teachers in Caloocan High School respondents and how health risks affect the work productivity of the selected high school teachers in Caloocan High School respondents.

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