Members’ loyalty and participation: Their impacts on the cooperative governance in Samarica, Occidental Mindoro

This study aimed to identify the determinants of members' loyalty and to test the influence among members' participation, members' loyalty and cooperative governance in San Jose, Magsaysay, Rizal and Calintaan (SAMARICA) of Occidental Mindoro. The researcher used mixed sequential exploratory method and it employed statistical treatment such as Thematic analysis, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and Confirmatory factor analysis. The data were drawn from 287 respondents of members of cooperative in selected 10 multi-purpose of cooperatives in SAMARICA area. This study found out that ethical values and duties and responsibilities of the members are the indicators of members' loyalty. The study also found out that members' loyalty has a moderate positive effect to the cooperative governance; members' loyalty has a moderate effect to the members' participation and members' participation slightly affects the cooperative governance. Based on the findings, the study concludes that the more loyal the members are, the more they can evaluate and see the performance of the BODs and the more they can participate in the activities of cooperatives. Therefore, this study recommended to the BODs to give more appreciation to those who are loyal members and make a meaningful reason on why the members need to participate in different activities of cooperatives. Also, it is relevant for the BODs and managers of cooperative to broaden their knowledge on how to manage, lead, decide and do their duties and responsibilities to retain their members and to establish proper governance system that would help the cooperatives to attain its goals and objectives.