Abstract
This study determined the relationship between teachers’ resourcefulness, initiatives, encouraging capabilities, and work commitment. The descriptive-correlation research design was used in this study. A total of 300 teachers were selected using the random sampling technique. The results reveal that teacher-respondents manifest moderate level of resourcefulness; the level of teachers’ initiative can be interpreted as in a high level; they have high level of encouraging capabilities and work commitment, meanwhile, there a significant relationship between resourcefulness and initiative capabilities with work commitment, initiative capabilities and work commitment. However, their encouraging capabilities exhibit positive low correlation to work commitment. Furthermore, the teachers’ resourcefulness capabilities, initiative capabilities, and encouraging capabilities significantly influenced their work commitment. Thus, the best fit of work commitment was explored
Keywords: Teachers, Work Commitment, Resourcefulness, Initiative, Encouraging Capabilities, Path Analysis, Carmen District