OPERATIONAL PRACTICES OF COOPERATIVES IN COTABATO AND THEIR SUSTAINABILITY

Community Development

This research delved on the operational practices of cooperatives in Cotabato which involved as respondents the 300 chairperson and manager of cooperatives. Firstly, Study 1 focused on the cooperative profile and the cooperative operational practices and their level of effectiveness to sustainable development. Secondly, Study 2 tried to interlink the operational practices and the cooperative operational practices to sustainable development. Finally, Study 3 traversed to the cooperative’s development sustainability and attempts to draw policies and intervention plan that could be utilized by the cooperative sector to champion the roadmap to the cooperative sustainable development. The method of descriptive regression and correlation was employed. The result reveals that cooperative profile regardless of their years in operation, type, and asset size do not significantly influence to sustainable development of the cooperative. Conversely, all the cooperative operational practices like management style, member’s engagement and participation, capital build-up, support system, leadership effectiveness, market position and competition, innovation and adaptation, and organizational culture showed high significance to sustainable development. Further, it was also found out that the cooperatives in Cotabato are mostly affiliated to multipurpose cooperatives, followed by credit cooperatives. Additionally, result also revealed that these cooperatives are mostly micro and very few are large and are operating for more ten years.

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