Understanding the perspectives on accountability of select employees in the Provincial Government of Bataan / [manuscript]
Rosario M. Garcia
- Balanga City : BPSU, 2019.
- xiii, 139 pp. ; 28 cm.
- Understanding the perspectives on accountability of select employees in the Provincial Government of Bataan .
Thesis (MPA) BPSU, 2019.
The study emphasized an understanding of the perspectives on accountability of select employees in the Provincial Government of Bataan for the CY 2017-2018. Specifically, the profile of the employees in terms of age, sex, educational attainment, length of service, monthly income, and relevant trainings and seminars. On the other hand, the dependent variables consist of administrative accountability such as organizational accountability, management decision and organizational learnings. The study also described the level of accountability of the personnel in the Provincial Government of Bataan in terms of customer satisfaction, personnel effectiveness, and procedure and policy compliance. The statistical tests used were mean, frequency and percentage for the descriptive statistics while for inferential statistics, one-way analysis of Variance, Independent t-test, Pearson's r Correlation and regression analysis were utilized. The inferential tests are all two tailed. Before conducting hypothesis testing, assumptions were tested such as Normality test (Kolmogorov - Smirnov and Shapiro - wilk) while for homogeneity of variances Levene's test were used. Weighted mean was utilized to describe the profile of the employees, correlation analysis was used. Furthermore, Analysis of Variance and t test were used to determine if there is significant difference in the practice of good governance and level of accountability of the Provincial Government of Bataan personnel when they are grouped according to profile. In terms of hypothesis testing, SPSS readily provides significance or probability values; hence, these are simply compared with 0.05 level which was set in the study as the accepted level of significance. If the significance or p-value is equal or lower than 0.05, then the statistical value is significant; thus, the null hypothesis is rejected. Otherwise, if it is not significant then the null hypothesis is not rejected. The study targeted 105 participants with a response rate of 100%. The respondents involved in this study were employees in the Provincial Government of Bataan present office assignment in the service during Calendar Year 2017-2018. The research utilized a stratified sampling technique. To satisfy the objectives of this research, a quantitative research was conducted. Thus, to justify the findings of the relationship between accountability and good governance, a semi-structured interview was used. The study revealed that organizational accountability, management decision and organizational learning had significant role in promoting good governance in the Provincial Government of Bataan with respondents belong to age group of 40 years old and above, females, and have been civil servants for a decade and less. And taken as a whole, good governance and accountability of select Provincial Government of Bataan have a positive moderately high correlation. Based on the findings and in the study Public Accountability, a framework that will support employees' involvement in monitoring and supervision of plans and programs to measure if the existing structure they belong to has high impact on their respective performance and is sufficient for producing the effect or outcome of good governance may be proposed. This may be in a form of a high-capacity integrated framework among all departments/offices classified according to sector or services as the key enabling factor for new accountability initiatives.
Accounting--Moral and ethical aspects. Business ethics Ethics