Workplace Spirituality And Proactive Behavior Among Elementary School Teachers Of Ministry Of Basic, Higher And Technical Education – Sulu

Abstract

This is a descriptive-correlational study that determined the extent of workplace spirituality and proactive behavior among elementary school teachers of MBHTE-Sulu. Adopting weighted mean, standard deviation, t-Test for independent samples, One-way ANOVA, and Pearson’s r test of correlation, this study reveals the following findings: 1) On demographic profile, out of 200 teacher-respondents, majority are female, within 26-30 and 31-40 years old of age brackets, mostly are married teachers, have only bachelor’s degree, and have been in teaching profession for about 5 years & below. 2) Generally, elementary school teachers at MBHTE-Sulu manifest high workplace spirituality. 3) Generally, elementary school teachers at MBHTE-Sulu are indulged with high proactive behavior towards their teaching jobs. 4) Variables gender, age, civil status, length of service, and educational attainment do not intervene in ways how teachers’ perceive the extent of workplace spirituality. 5) Variables gender, age, civil status, length of service, and educational attainment do not intervene in ways how teachers’ perceive the extent of proactive behavior. 6) Workplace spirituality and proactive behavior of elementary school teachers at MBHTE-Sulu are highly correlated. 7) This study tends to support the Workplace Spirituality Model developed by Petchsawang and Duchon (2009 in Petchsawang and Mclean, 2017) and Proactive Behavior Model developed by Crant and Kraimer (1999 in Delle and Amadu, 2016).