CHAPTER V

SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

This chapter will provide the summary, findings of the

study. Then, conclusions will be discussed based on researcher

insights gained regarding study finding and limitations. In

addition, three sets of recommendations are presented. The first

set of recommendations is directed towards institution. The set

of recommendations are for ABM students. Finally, a set of

recommendations is presented for the future students that will

experience work immersion.

SUMMARY

FINDINGS

A questionnaire-based survey has done to show the

effectiveness of work immersion to ABM students.

50 random respondents were asked to answer the

questionnaire which is divided into three major parts. The first

one is about the respondents work immersion venue, the second

one is about the sufficiency of 10-day work immersion and

awareness and the last one is about the effectiveness of work

immersion for students.

following results have shown:

FIGURE 1

This shows that 88% of the respondents were assigned to

have work immersion into local government units and only 12% of

them have trained under private establishments, different banks.

(a) Table 1

This shows the relevance of having a sensible connection of

the respondents to their workplace;

(1) Relatedness of work immersion job to their working

field.

- As ABM students have done their work immersion on

local government units and private establishment, 64%

of 50 ABM students said that their work immersion is

related to their working field wherein 34% of them do

not.

(2) The administrative officers are approachable.

- In their 80 hours of work immersion job, majority of

them found the administrative officers approachable

while working on their working place.

(3) Co-workers treat them as employee-employee.

an employee, their co-workers treat them as a real

employee who works with them.

(4) Perform professionally in the workplace

- Assessing ABM students’ performance, 96% of the

respondents act professionally where they were

assigned to have their work immersion.

(b) Table 2

This shows the ABM Students’ performance and awareness.

(1) Tasks are appropriate as ABM students.

- ABM students are in the field of accounting, auditing,

business operations, managements and other works

inside the office, but in the work immersion they have

done, only 52% of the respondents’ experience on doing

tasks are appropriate.

(2) Perform well the assigned tasks.

- Despite of inappropriateness of some tasks, all the

respondents still do the tasks that are assigned to

them very well with enthusiasm.

(3) Applied the academic learning to their work immersion.

- Due to different designations of ABM students, some of

them have done their work immersion on banks and most

of them are assigned in local government units, only

34% of respondents do not because their tasks were not

aligned with their course.

(4) Encountered difficulties during their work immersion.

- 60% of the respondents handled their tasks/jobs with

ease without being thrilled with the hardship

eventually, 40% of them encountered difficulties.

(5) Work immersion is beneficial.

- Majority of the respondents found the work immersion

beneficial. Whether it is aligned with their working

field or not, they still believe that their experience

of working will be a big help for them as they have

real job in the future.

FIGURE 2

Since it is just a two-week experience of work immersion,

completing the 80-hour from 8am to 5pm with one-hour lunch

break, 60% of the respondents think that having this little time

is not sufficient to learn more but 40% of them still agreed

that the time limit is enough to learn.

A set of an open-ended question were asked to 50

respondents regarding their competencies enrichment in both

skills development and behavioral growth.

professional to their job. They learned on how to be responsible

during work. They improved their communication skills through

working with cooperation with their co-workers and communicating

with other. The work immersion also boosted their self-

confidence on facing different people.

In generalization of their answers, work immersion does

really have a great impact on the improvement of their

competitive skills and behavioral growth.

Table 3

This will show how effective the work immersion is for

Students.

As the researchers perceived insights of the respondents

regarding the effectiveness of work immersion, there are several

reasons why other respondents tell and agreed that this work

immersion that they have been done is effective, but not all the

respondents think that their work immersion is not effective due

to the sole reason that it is not related to their working

field.

COMCLUSIONS

The purpose of the study is to investigate the

effectiveness of work immersion in local government units and

Calapan City Inc.

After the analysis of the data perceived, the following

conclusions are made.

1. The work venue is not the basis of how one can see the

effectiveness the work immersion to students, either

assigned on local government units or private

establishments, one can see their improvement. As ABM

students do their work immersion, they have created a

good relation to the employees of the said offices even

though the tasks assigned to them were not related to

their strand.

2. Due to some unrelated tasks that have been assigned to

them and to difficulties sometimes being encountered,

they still perform very well with applying their

learnings from school and especially working with

professionalism.

3. The work immersion that have been done by ABM students

had a great impact to the development and improvement of

their skills and their behavioral growth.

4. In the overall view of the findings, the work immersion

of ABM students is effective despite of any reasons of

not having relatedness to their working field, it is

offices they have been assigned. They learned not only in

the field of accounting, auditing, management or any

office works, but also the learning of how to

intelligently interact and create good relation to the

co-workers with confidence and professionalism.

5. In the 80-hour time limit of work immersion of the ABM

students, still they can use all the knowledge and

learning they have got in their future.

RECOMMENDATION

The following recommendations are divided into three

sections. The first section presents a set of recommendations

towards institution. The second section is a set of

recommendations to ABM students. Finally, a set of

recommendations is presented for the future students that will

experience work immersion.

Recommendation for the institution;

1. The institution must assign the students in the work venue

that is related to the working field of the students.

2. They should conduct assessment to students’ improvement

after doing the work immersion to see how a student excel

from its own experience.

1. All the skills that have been developed and improved during

their work immersion must be valued by them. It is just a

small thing but has a great impact in students’ growth as a

person.

2. They must cherish the experiences and memories that they

have in the work immersion because they learned and

benefitted from it.

3. ABM students should thank the institution as well as the

offices where they were trained.

4. Assess yourselves on what skills that were developed or

improved in you.

5. In the future, never forget to apply the learnings they

have got in the work immersion because it had a big impact

to their personal growth as professionals.

Recommendation for new students that will experience work

immersion;

1. They should learn how to adopt new environment and build a

good relation to their co-workers.

2. They should always work with enthusiasm and professionalism

despite of sometimes experiencing hardships on working.

3. Apply the learnings that you have gain from the school.
4. Within the 80-hour work immersion, they should do the best

that they can.

5. Before leaving the office, make sure that you learned or

improved something on your skills within that day.