This study attempted to determine the management Status of the primary cooperatives in Northern Samar in terms of the five aspects namely, Administrative, organizational, financial, Marketing and Technical aspects.
A descriptive survey design was done and employed a research-made questionnaire coupled with focus group discussion (FDG) to validate the answer of the respondents. The findings revealed that management status of the 33 existing primary cooperative as assessed by the respondents fairly good, the number of employees, the assignment of the tasks to employees. BOD and the officers, members' share capital, cooperatives' income, product distributions and promotion of product.
Based on the over-all assessment of the respondents marketing aspects got the highest mean rating of 2.86 followed by organizational and financial aspects with a mean rating of 2.62. Training behind is technical aspect with a mean rating 2.37. This implies that the respondents considered the distribution and promotion of the cooperatives' product to be fairly good followed by the organizational aspects and financial aspect which show strong points per assessment. The respondents are with the opinion that cooperatives' expertise & skills need to be improved.