The Condition of Joji Ilagan Career Center Foundation’s Partner Community: A Hierarchical Regression Analysis

Abstract

This study aimed to establish the significant contribution of individual empowerment to the strength of organizational power to predict Barangay development outcomes. Forty-two residents selected through a systematic sampling technique among nine Purok responded to the survey. The data analysis used frequency count, percentage, mean and standard deviation, hierarchical linear regression, and ANOVA. Results showed an overall moderate level of executive power, individual empowerment, and barangay development outcomes. Moreover, the correlation test showed a solid, positive, and significant relationship between organizational power and barangay development outcomes and personal empowerment and barangay development outcomes. Furthermore, organizational power can predict barangay development outcomes by 62.6%. Finally, the hierarchical regression analysis revealed a significant effect of individual empowerment on the correlation between organizational power and barangay development outcomes. Pointedly, the combined impact of organizational power and individual empowerment can significantly explain the variance in the development outcomes in the barangay. This study’s findings have leadership implications for the barangays. KEYWORDS: intervening effect, individual empowerment, organizational power, barangay, development outcomes, hierarchical regression analysis, Philippines