Organizational Culture Organizational Commitment and Good Governance of Private Higher Education Institutions: Inputs to Effective Human Resource Management Framework

This study identified the organizational culture, the organizational commitment of employees in selected Private Higher Education Institutions in Mindoro Province, and their good governance as inputs to effective Human Resource management framework. More specifically, it assessed organizational culture in terms of support, mission, success, and bureaucracy aspect; organizational commitment in terms of affective, normative and continuance dimensions; and good governance in terms of resources management, accountability and participatory decision-making. This further tested if there are significant differences on the responses when grouped according to its profile variables; significant relationship among existing variables; and finally, proposed a framework for effective HRM. The researcher used descriptive method using survey questionnaire in gathering data. The data were drawn from 341 teaching and non-teaching staff in five selected private HEIs in Mindoro Province. The study showed that the organizational culture is highly evident in terms of support, mission, and success aspect. The employees manifested moderate commitment to the organization in terms of affective, normative and continuance dimensions; and good governance is found with great evidence considering resources management while accountability and participatory decision making generated moderate evidence. Furthermore, no significant differences are reflected on the organizational culture when the staff are grouped according to its demographic profile except for the respondents’ age that differs in the aspect of bureaucracy. Response variations on organizational commitment are reflected in affective and continuance commitment as they are grouped according to age, highest education attainment, and job position respectively; and there is no significant difference on good governance based on demographic profile. A high significant relationship exists among organizational culture, organizational commitment, and good governance. Finally, the researcher proposed HRM framework to improve the work performance of the staff at private higher education institutions

Keywords – organizational culture, organizational commitment, good governance