Organizational Culture, Professional Learning Community, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Teachers' Performance of Adventist Schools

This study aimed to develop a model of organizational culture, professional learning community and corporate social responsibility towards teachers’ performance. Furthermore, it also explored into the variables that best predict teachers’ performance and the development of a structural model that best fits teachers’ performance. The study was conducted among the elementary, academy and colleges of Adventist schools under the South Philippine Union Conference. The participants were the 839 teachers from the elementary, academy and college departments. Results of the study revealed that, the Adventist schools highly practiced the organizational culture and the professional learning community. They highly applied the corporate social responsibility. Teachers in Adventist schools have a performance that exceeded expectations. The organizational culture and all its domains are significantly related to the teachers’ performance. Structurally, the teachers’ performance was best anchored on the organizational culture with all its domains. Thus, the more the Adventist schools exhibited the organizational culture the more the teachers perform well. Additionally, the more the Adventist institutions make some innovations, give importance to their teachers and staff, and encourage their teachers do some community service which is the social responsibility, the more the teachers are eager to work and participate in school activities. The formative teaching performance paradigm of Adventist schools stipulate that, to have outstanding performance of teachers, Adventists schools may consider to desirably practice their organizational culture and be integrated by the corporate social responsibility as well as by the professional learning community.