Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Manila, Philippines
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Presented by:
Aban, Jessica
De Villa, Kim Carlo M.
Ellao, Trisha
Roque, Casper Jay
Salut, Mary Rose
ACT 181
Presented to:
Mr. Ireneo R. Aguilan
March 2020
Table of Contents
Abstract ……………………………………………………………….......………… 3
Introduction ……………………………………………………………………....…. 4
Alternatives ………………………………………………………………………..... 4
Recommendation ……………………………………………………………....….. 9
Conclusion ………………………………………………………………………….. 11
Bibliography ………………………………………………………………………… 12
INTRODUCTION
often devote themselves to effecting change in their own lives and the lives of
others. Religion is probably the strongest belief system that has existed for
thousands of years. In many ways, it is a code of conduct, a rule book that allows
essential causal role in some of the actions, and it plays a vital role in formation
attitudes, cultural norms and influences individual and group behaviour. Most
behaviors. Researches have established the idea of ethics that are derived from
religions. Not only from religions, but it can also find our guidance to ethics from
RELIGION
Religion is defined as the human being’s relation to that which they regard
also commonly regarded as consisting of the way people deal with ultimate
concerns about their lives and their fate after death (Augustyn, et al., 2019).
According to Anthony (2019), the Philippines was known for being the only
Christian nation in Asia with more than 80% of the population is Roman Catholic.
This religion was introduced in 1500s when the Philippines was colonized by the
colonization that happened. The cultural adaptation that took place caused this
field, trees and even the mountain to having a formal and sacred place to pray.
spread like the Iglesia ni Kristo, Rizalists, Jehovah’s Witness, Seventh day
Adventist and many more. Moreover, religion has a significant effect in the
workplace and organization, which can bring up some of the most difficult issues
employers have to face. Resolving these issues requires understanding the law
and balancing the business's needs with an employee's desire to practice his or
her religion.
BEHAVIOR NORMS
According to Biccheri, Muldoon and Sontuoso (2018), social norms are the
informal rules that govern the behavior in groups and societies. It is a result of
in society. Social norms that are observable, recurrent patterns of of behavior are
behavior norms. It refers to actions over which people have control and are
of personal relations, and that a theory of norms should not leave the specific
social context out of consideration. Critics of the socialized actor theory have
called for an alternative conception of norms that may account for the often-weak
relation between beliefs and behavior. This alternative approach takes social
nothing but scripted behavior. For example, the category “Asian student” is
see them as “typical” members of their group. The same process is at work when
attributes that characterize the group”. It is this cognitive shift that mediates
group behavior.
of a group, she will perceive herself as “depersonalized” and like other group-
perceive their interests and goals as identical—because such interests and goals
member to embrace such interests and goals as her own. It is thus predicted that
religious knowledge and beliefs; in addition to its affect which is associated with
expressed, such as church affiliation and attendance, Bible reading, and praying.
towards a set of principles which provide some extent of social controls for
individuals.
people to work harder and perform better in the organizations. They revealed
religiosity moderate the relationship between job stressors and job motivation,
right decision which guides them towards success path. They verified the
existence of relationship between religiosity and helping others; exhibit high level
of OCB, moreover the tendency to work longer as compared to those who were
less pious. Religious does not focus mainly on attaining success nevertheless
the ability to learn, respect, appreciate and value other people’s religion and
belief. Having a positive belief in religious will contribute towards positive effect in
Research Institute for Theology and Religion University of South Africa which
Traditional African Religion workers, they found that religion have positive
personal need and organization duties effectively if they intended to preserve the
Islamic work ethic in the organization. From this study, it denotes that the Muslim
employees are aware with their limitation issue where bad ethical work behavior
groups in organization in order to manage a new workforce and cope with the
ahead of their formal job requirements and willing to sacrifice their time and
employees put forth effort beyond the proper responsibilities of their positions
organizational or departmental final goals (Organ, 1988; Smith, Organ & Near,
1983).