Work values of Filipino college students

ABSTRACT

Work values refer to the business ethics and personal work preferences of individuals. Using the Filipino Work Values Scale, we characterised 10 work values of 141 full-time Filipino college students. Interpersonal, intellectual-achievement and occupational work values emerged as the most salient work values among the students. The rest appeared as either “weak” (environmental, material, managerial, religious, organisational and family-centred) or “very weak” (variety). Reflective of family influence over career orientation, some of the work values correlated with parents’ educational and professional backgrounds. As student work values are considered to influence long-term career choices and employability, comprehensively characterising work values may be useful in tailoring career counselling interventions that can help improve career pathing and job placements of students.

KEYWORDS:

• Career guidance
• career services for young people
• counselling in higher education
• work values
• Filipino students
• family influence

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Ian I. Llenares

Ian I. Llenares is the former Coordinator of the Social Orientation and Community Involvement Program (SOCIP) of the Technological Institute of the Philippines-Quezon City, Philippines. He is currently an associate professor of Department of Psychology of the National University in Manila, Philippines. His research interest is in the field of positive psychology.

Chester C. Deocaris

Chester C. Deocaris is a biochemist and biostatistician. He currently teaches at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines in Manila, Philippines.

Custer C. Deocaris

Custer C. Deocaris is a Senior Science Research Scientist 1 for the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute, Philippines. He recently served as the Research Chief at the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). He is also is also a graduate school professorial lecturer at the Technological Institute of the Philippines, Philippines. His current interest is in national policy formulation for research and extension in higher education.