International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) |Volume VI, Issue XI, November 2022|ISSN 2454-6186
Arnold Jr. Teorosio
Department of Education, Philippines
Abstract: This study determines the mediating effect of teamwork on the relationship between empowering leadership and work engagement of teachers. This study employed quantitative non-experimental research design utilizing correlational technique. This was conducted at Davao del Norte Division in which there are 300 respondents in study, who respondent the three sets of modified questionnaires. A quantitative non-experimental research design was used and employed the validated questionnaire were the researcher reliable instrument. Mean scores were obtained in determining the level of empowering leadership, of which all the indicators rated very high which mean that empowering leadership of teachers was always manifested. Same as to work engagement of the teachers in which all the indicators rated very high which means that work engagement was always manifested. Teamwork also of the teachers were rated very high which means that teamwork of teachers in school was always manifested. The relationship between empowering leadership and work engagement was significant. Hence, the relationship between empowering leadership and teamwork and Teamwork and work engagement were all significant. Teamwork has a partial mediating effect between empowering leadership and work engagement.
Keywords: Education, Empowering Leadership, Mediating Effect, Quantitative Non-Experimental Design, Philippines, Teamwork,Work Engagement
I. RATIONALE
In the United States of America, due to the significant attrition and turnover rates among teachers worldwide, there were concerns with work engagement among instructors today. According to reports, as many as fifty percent (50%) of teachers quit their jobs within the first ten years of their careers (Ingersoll, 2017).
It highlights that only 25% of those who continued teaching retired, while the other 50% left the field for other jobs. Similar teacher attrition and turnover are observed in other western countries, with 25% to 40% of newly hired teachers leaving their positions. In Indonesia, incidents of teachers changing careers or leaving their employment are also occurring relative to the number of teachers in countries like the USA and other western nations (Feng, 2019).
Although most teachers are not changing jobs in the Philippines, there is a problem with their work engagement. Work engagement causes staff members to be unproductive and absent from work (Bakker, A. B., Demerouti 2003).