WORK IMMERSION REVIEWER

PARTNER INSTITUTIONS – Public or private institutions.

MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT – A legally binding document.

LESSON 1:

Deped Order No. 30,s 2017 – Guidelines for Work Immersion

Definition of terms :

PARTNERSHIP – Relationship between the partner institution and the school.

SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP FOCAL PERSON – The person authorized to seek partnership between DepEd and
Institutions (Deped Order 40,s 2015)

WORK IMMERSION – Refers to the subject of the senior high school curriculum.

WORK IMMERSION PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTIONS SUPERVISOR – Serves as the counterpart of the Work
Immersion Teacher.

WORK IMMERSION TEACHER – The school personnel who is assigned to supervise the learners.

WORKPLACE IMMERSION VENUE – The place where work immersion is conducted.

Work Ethics :

COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE – You do not only work just for compliance but you work hard to
produce the best output or best quality.

COOPERATION – You know how to fellow rules and regulations of the workplace.

HONESTY – An honesty employee fosters good reputation to an organization.

INTEGRITY & LOYALTY – Never disclose nor reveal nor share confidential matters.

PRODUCTIVITY – You have to accomplish more within the stipulated or specified time.

PROFESSIONALISM – More then just how you look but it’s a way of speaking, behaving and even
thinking that helps a person to be successful in the workplace.

PUNCTUALITY – Submit your work early or on time.

RELIABILITY – Quality of being able to be trusted or believed because of working or behaving well.

RIGHT ATTITUDE – Many always look for an employee with right attitude.

TEAMWORK – Be a good team player with your colleagues in workplace.

LESSON 2:

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARDS (OSHS) – Formulated in 1978 in compliance with the
constitutional mandate.

1. EMPLOYER – Includes any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer.
2. EMPLOYEE – Shall mean any person hired, permitted or suffered to work by an employer.
3. SAFE OR SAFETY – Shall refer to the physical or environmental conditions of work or
employment.
4. HEALTH – Connote a sound state of the body and mind of the worker, which enables him to
perform his job normally, in a state of well-being.
5. WORK ACCIDENT – Unplanned or unexpected occurrence that may or may not result in personal
injury.
6. WORK INJURY – Shall mean any injury or occupational illness suffered by a person.
7. WORKPLACE – Means the office, premises or work site, where the workers are habitually
employed.

Some specific guidelines that DOH implements :

1. The employer must ensure that the workplace is properly disinfected, ventilated, and
maintained.
2. Employer shall also provide proper visual reminders for safety policies around the workplace to
improve compliance.

HAZARD – Is anything with potential to cause injury, illness, or damage.

Types of Hazards :

1. PHYSICAL HAZARDS – These are brought by unhealthy working conditions. (Ex. Slips, Strips, Falls,
Noise, Electricity.
2. BIOLOGICAL HAZARDS – These are brought about by workers infected with disease or illness,
unhygienic personal practices that can transmit bacteria, parasites, fungi. (Ex. Viruses, Fungi,
Molds, Bacteria.
3. ERGONOMIC HAZARDS – These are brought by poor posture when looking long periods of
standing, bending, pushing, lifting.
4. PSYCHOLOGICAL HAZARDS – These are brought by too much stress from work that may cause
mental emotional strains, anxieties, depression.

LESSON 3:

RIGHTS – What you can expect your employer to provide.

RESPONSIBILITIES – What your employer can expect you will do.

RIGHTS OF EMPLOYEES – The bureau of working conditions.

EQUAL WORK OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL – The state shall protect labor, promote full employment,
provide equal work opportunity regardless of gender, race, or creed;

SECURITY OF TENURE – Every employee shall be assured security of tenure.

WORK DAYS AND WORK HOURS – An employee must be paid their wages for all hours worked.

WEEKLY REST DAY – A day-off of 24 consecutive hours after 6 days work.

WAGE AND WAGE-RELATED BENEFITS – Amount paid to an employee in exchange for the service that
they rendered to their employer.

PAYMENT OF WAGES – Wages should be paid directly to the employee in cash, legal tender, or through a
bank.

FEMALE EMPLOYEES – Women prohibited from engaging in night work unless the work is allowed by the
following rules.

EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN – The minimun age of employment is 18 years for hazardous jobs, and 15
years old for non-hazardous job.

SAFE WORKING CONDITIONS – Employers must provide workers with every kind of on-the-job
protection against injury.

RIGHTS TO SELF-ORGANIZATION AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING – Every worker has the right to self
organizations, i,e., to form or to join any legitimate workers union.

RESPONSIBLITIES OF AN EMPLOYER

- To make a work agreement with the employee, agreeing on conditions, time and place;
- To follow up with the employee on the agreed terms;
- To supervise and provide suitable conditions of work so workers have security, health and dignity;
- To honor terms of payments.
- To safeguard standards staff
- To register and pay into social security for the employee;
- To take care of the well-being of staff and qualified dependents (e.g. wife/husband, children)
- To agree on a performance contract.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE WORKER

- To personally perform the work in the time, place, and conditions as agreed upon;
- To follow the instructions of the worker’s boss;
- To avoid any issues or problems at the workplace that will endanger the worker or his/her
colleagues.
- To follow the rules at work.
LESSON 4 :

CONFIDENTIALITY – Means the state of keeping secret or not disclosing information.

CONFIDENTIALITY IN THE WORKPLACE – Involves any confidential information that an employee can
come across in the ordinary course of business.

HANDLING GOSSIP – It goes without saying that you should not spread gossip, especially if you do not
know if it is true.

TYPES OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

1. EMPLOYEE INFORMATION – If you come across private information in the cause of your work.
2. MANAGERAL INFORMATION – It includes both information about individuals, such as
disciplinary action.
3. ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION – It is also known as business information or ‘trade secrets’.
4. CUSTOMER OR CONTACT INFORMATION – Is partially covered by ‘trade secrets’
5. PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION – Some professionals including doctors, lawyer and accountants.

How conflict occurs? Conflicts in the workplace can arise when two or more parties have different
objectives, opinion or styles.

CONFLICT RESOLUTION – The art of addressing those differences and finding common ground.

How to handle in the workplace :

LISTEN, THEN SPEAK OUT – Imply listen to all parties involved to completely understand the nature of
conflict.

GATHER THE GROUP – Arrange a meeting with all involved parties to discuss the issue.

BE IMPARTIAL – Don’t takes sides. If you are partial towards one person, try to access the situation from
all sides to come up with a fair and reasonable solution.

DO NOT POSTPONE CONFLICT RESOLUTION – Address the conflict immediately.

PROMOTE TEAMWORK – Remind your staff of successful projects that required teamwork to complete.

7 Examples of Important teamwork skills :

TEAMWORK SKILLS – Are essential to your success at work, no matter your industry or job title.

1. COMMUNICATION – The ability to communicate in a clear, efficient way is a critical teamwork

skill.
2. RESPONSIBILITY – With the entire team functioning properly by taking responsibility for their
own work.
3. HONESTY – Without transparency, it can be difficult for a team to develop trust and therefore
work together efficiency.
4. ACTIVE LISTENING – Act of making an effort to focus intently on one person as they share their
ideas, thoughts or feelings.
5. EMPATHY – Try to understand your co-workers backgrounds.
 6. COLLABORATION – Teamwork exists so that a group of individuals with a diverse set of skills.
7. AWARENESS – Dominating the conversation or does not allow others to share ideas.

LESSON 5 :

RESUME – A brief summary of personal and professional experience, skills, and education history.

Formatting your Resume :

A. HEADER – Includes name, full address, phone number and email.

B. PROFESSIONAL CAREER OBJECTIVE – Highligts your intensions and accomplishments.
C. QUALIFICATION SUMMARY – Highlight your most noteworthy attributes.
D. EDUCATION – Liat the highest level education first.
E. EXPERIENCE – This category typically reflects your contact with specific employers.
F. REFERENCES – Generally references are not listed on a resume and only provided if requested by
an employer.

STRUCTURE OF A RESUME

• Use short, bulleted statements.

• Use numbers or percentages.
• Avoid personal pronounce like “I” or “ME”
• Start your statements with action VERBs.

FORMATS OF RESUME

1. CHRONOLOGICAL FORMAT – The most common type of resume.

2. FUNCTIONAL FORMAT – List work experience and skills sorted per area or job function.
3. COMBINANT FORMAT – Merges bits and pieces from both chronological and functional format.

GOODLUCK!! : )
-Ara