St.

Mary’s College of Meycauayan

Integrated Basic Education Department
Senior High School Program
Meycauayan City, Bulacan
S.Y. 2018-2019

The Effect of Padrino System on the

Behavior of the Employees

Michaela Mari Y. Santiago

12 – ABM (A)

Mr. Jonas Matheu D. Marquez

Adviser
 CHAPTER I
Introduction
In the modern world, running a
business can be extremely difficult due to
massive number of competitors currently
on the market. It is essential, therefore,
for the business to stay ahead of the
competition so that it can grow and
compete against the giant industries.
Business owners need employees that
can get the job done, because employee
performance is critical to the overall
success of the company. Employees
serve as an asset of the company
because it helps any business to increase
profits and consistently meet its goals.
According to Miksen (2017), a
company consists of employees with
primarily negative or positive behavior.
An employee’s behavior often reflects the
behavior and attitude of his superiors. In
addition, superiors who do negative
things usually cause employees to do the
same. Negative behavior managers also
prevent employees from growing and
improving, because their management
style doesn’t promote a good motivation
and encouragement for the employees.
Managers who take on a negative
behavior usually do so without realizing
that it adversely affects the workplace.
Therefore, the performance of the
employees is greatly connected to the
treatments, behavior, and attitude of the
leaders inside the workplace. This
research aims to address this existing
problem to know the effect of particular
system which is the Padrino that is an
unethical practice in the Philippines.
Padrino system, also known as
“Palakasan” or Patronage, in the culture
of the Philippines allows the individuals to
get a job or be promoted without any
hassle only if it’s one of the family
members, good friends with, or referred
by someone who they are closed to as
mentioned by Jomvie (2015).
Furthermore, it is one of the worst
aspects in work ethics and has been the
most notorious, corrupt and dirtiest
system for decades and centuries in the
Philippines. However, no one could ever
bring it down, nor tear it up and put off
this kind of system because the people
practicing this infamous system have
gone too far to let go of the fame and
wealth they are experiencing. To be
clearer, it is the value system where one
gains favor and is a system where
Filipinos engage in illegal activities in
pursuit of their own interests. Some are
driven through nepotism, favor due to
family affiliations or cryonism which in
favors due to friendship or even "utang
na loob", favors due to debt or gratitude
as opposed to merit or qualifications
(Wikipedia, 2018).
As mentioned by Allorica (2018),
the Padrino system is difficult to break up
because it is deeply entrenched inside
and outside the system of most
companies and this even started in the Research Questions
history of the Philippine Constitution.
Most of the time it happens in the Politics, This research seeks to discover
from that perspective, these powerful the effect of Padrino system on the
people got there because they had behavior of the employees.
connections and throughout their stay in
To be specific, this study shall seek
the position, they nourished and even
answer to the following questions:
built more connections. Many
government/private employees have
1) Does the Padrino System affect
been able to enter government/or the
the behavior of the employees?
position that they have even though they
2) What is the effect of having
are not qualified but because they have
Padrino system in the workplace
their Padrino to back them up, other
on the behavior of the employees?
deserving individuals are by passed by
individuals who has this system. The
thing with Padrino system and the people
Conceptual Framework
who abuse it is that they disregard the
qualifications of deserving individuals just
to please their connections. At the rate it The study will observe the given
is going, it’s possible that this system framework whereas:
cannot be removed in the culture of the
Filipinos because it's even a concern in Input
one of the biggest parts of the country, a case study that aims to discover the
effect of Padrino system on the behavior
the government.
of the employees on their workplace.

In accordance to the statement of

McKinney (2015), this issue comes with
the employee’s behavior in the workplace
that are shaped by their surroundings
and by the organization's culture which
defined as the way in which individual
respond to specific circumstances or
situation. Personal and corporate culture
affect the way employees communicate
and interact with one another and with
management. Additionally, an
employee's beliefs affect his or her ethics
and sense of responsibility.
Process
 Presentation of the study's problem
 Look for the related literatures than
can support and serve as evidence
to prove the study.
 Specifying the purpose to know the
sense of the case study.
 Choosing a respondent that can
give accurate answer to a given
questions.
 Data gathering through survey.
  Analyzation and interpreting the CHAPTER 2
raw data that has been gathered.
 Presenting the results. Methodology

Method

Output The researcher is going to apply

A complete and reliable study that has qualitative method particularly a case
solid evidences tackling the effects of study design to figure out the effects of
Padrino system on the behavior of the Padrino system on the behavior of the
employees in their workplace that will help employees. For the process in
the companies to prevent the unethical conducting the data in order to complete
work system and behavior of the
the study, the researcher used purposive
employees.
sampling to gather the data that is
needed for this case study. Purposive
sampling procedure was used to select
Significance of the Study
the participants who have the ability and
can give an answer to the research
The following are the
questions.
expected to benefit from this research:
First, the employers, to know the
importance of the appropriate behavior Research Design
that their employees should be receiving
in order to achieve a successful and
healthy organizational environment. This study follows the case study
approach as it seeks to find out the effect
Second, the employees, for them
of Padrino System on the behavior the
to have a wider knowledge about the
employees by qualitatively addressing
issue for them to know how to deal with
the research questions of this study. The
it and to help them to be wise on
choosing an employer that ensure the researcher will conduct the data by
fairness in the workplace. distributing an open-ended questionnaire
that will be interpreted through thematic
Lastly, the business/management, analysis. Also, the researcher will provide
it will be able to help the companies to certainty for the anonymity and
prevent this kind of system to have a
confidentiality of the identity and
good relationship between the superiors
answers of the respondents.
and employees. With this, it would have
a healthy workplace that is advantageous
to the business success.
Interview Questions
The following are the interview
questions used for the data gathering
process.
1) As an employee, how can you sense if
the workplace has Padrino system?
2) How are you dealing with Padrino
system on your workplace?
3) What are the changes on your
behavior after knowing the Padrino
system is occurring on your workplace?
Themes
For interview question number 1
The following themes will be observed:
Suspicious – answers showing that
employees observe Padrino system in
the company.
Unsuspicious – answers showing that
employees did not observe Padrino
system in the company.
For interview question number 2
The following themes will be observed:
Pay attention - answers showing
dealing with the issue
Ignoring - answers showing refuse to
take notice towards the issue
For interview question number 3,
The following themes will be observed:
Positive Change – answers showing
positive change of behavior.
Negative Change – answers showing
negative change of behavior
Unchanged – answers showing no
change at all.
CHAPTER 3
Results
The themes from the study is
supported by the actual data gathered.
These will be able to help the researcher
to answer the following research
questions which are, "does the Padrino
System affect the behavior of the
employees? and "what is the effect of
having Padrino system in the workplace
on the behavior of the employees?" using
the said interview questions. The
research come up with the following
research themes:
For the Interview question
number one, "as an employee, how can
you sense if the workplace has Padrino
system?”, All the respondents has the
same answers that shows the theme
suspicious which implies that these
employees had observed Padrino system
in their company. Respondent A
answered, "If most of the people in my
workplace are within the same family and
there is an obvious favoritism for certain
person...", the respondent A stated that
she sense through nepotisms which in
favors due to family affiliation that the
Padrino system is occurring in their
workplace. Respondent B answered, "If
someone got promoted even if the
person has not enough skills for the
position and his relative is on the higher
management." this pertains to those
employees who are being hired and
promoted but the qualifications were not
able to reach for the said job.
Respondent C answered, "...if one
employee comes to our team and he/she
is a relative of our Manager first and that
employee is given the position that she is
not qualified...". this has given the both
thought of the respondent A and B which
is sensed by family affiliations and
regardless of the qualifications in the
position.
For the interview question number
two, "how are you dealing with Padrino
system on your workplace?" The answers
of the two out of three respondents
shows an ignoring theme which the
employees showing refuse to take notice
or deal towards the issues about Padrino
system occurring on their workplace.
Respondent A answered, "There's
nothing that I can do especially if the
boss is the root cause of the Padrino
system", this signifies that the employee
is not giving an attention or treating that
it is not big deal because the founder of
the Padrino system is the owner-
manager. It emphasizes that there is
nothing he/she can do, just to ignore it.
Respondent B answered, "Padrino
system is something that automatic on
the attitude of the filipino, So, for me, I
am ok with that because it signifies giving
important to your family, relatives and
friends”, the employee believes that the
Padrino system have been part in the
culture and it is common behavior of the
Filipinos for having this. Also, nepotisms
and cryonism are greatly emphasize as
stated in the answer.
For interview question number
three, “what are the changes on your
behavior after knowing the Padrino
system is occurring on your workplace?”
The answers revealed that the theme is
negative change, it shows that there is a
negative change of behavior of the
employees having this Padrino system on the
workplace. Respondent A answered, “A
person will no longer feel the urgency to
grow…”, this mean that this employee is
prevented for growing and improving
because of this system. It is lowering
their activeness because of the
unfairness occurred in the workplace.
Respondent C answered, “Well, it really
cool down my eagerness to work…”,
because of the Padrino system, it results
to the negative change of behavior in
terms in his/her performance in their
workplace. The hard work and striving for
the goodness of the company will lessen
and have a bad impact on the business.
Therefore, Padrino system gives a
negative effect on the behaviors of the
employees in terms on the work
performance.
 Chapter 4
Discussion
The purpose of this study is to
investigate the effect of Padrino systems
on the behavior of the employees. With
the help of the related literatures that
build a stronger point of the study.
The answer given by respondent A
to the question "as an employee, how
can you sense if the workplace has
Padrino system?" which is "if most of the
people in my workplace are within the
same family and there is an obvious
favoritism for certain person.", proved
the statement of Jomvie (2015) that
Padrino system is a kind of system where
an individual are gaining a favor
particularly in a job for hiring and
promoting by someone who are closed
with or favors due to family affiliations or
friendship.
According to Payumo et.al.
(2017), the Padrino system is a habit that
has been part of our culture, and most of
the Filipinos, family and friend ties are
important. This statement was proven by
Respondent B's answer in question
number two "how are you dealing with
Padrino system on your workplace?",
which is "Padrino system is something
that automatic on the attitude of the
Filipino, So, for me, I am ok with that
because it signifies giving important to
your family, relatives and friends", truly,
it has a strong family ties in the
Philippines. Filipinos are family-oriented
people. They highly value the presence
of their families and friends more than
anything. Their lives revolve around the
family and friends, it gives them strength
to carry on with their lives, it gives them
encouragement on every failure, and it
gives them love with no conditions that is
why, in return Filipino creates a system
which giving a favor that result to an
unfairness without considering others.
The statement of Miksen (2013),
"an employee’s behavior often reflects
the behavior and attitude of his superior
is observed through the answers of
Respondents A "a person will no longer
feel the urgency to grow" and
Respondent C "it really cool down my
eagerness to work", this proves that
Padrino system affects the employees
behavior in the workplace. There is
negative effect that changes the behavior
of the employees because of the
unfairness showed by the superior that
was able to emphasize the statement of
Miksen.
Conclusion
Based on the given answers of the
respondents, the researcher concluded
that Padrino system affect the behavior
of the employees. Furthermore, the
employees observe the Padrino system
occurring in their workplace that have
caused a negative change of behavior in
their workplace. This also have a
negative effect on the business since
employees is the main part of it.  Jomvie (2015). Padrino
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