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This descriptive-causal study aimed to determine the levels and effects of teachers' motivation and job satisfaction to their commitment and work engagement. The data were collected from 1,098 private secondary school teachers in Metro-Manila chosen using purposive sampling. Descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation were used and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was utilized for determining the relationships of the latent variables. Results revealed that teachers are motivated and with high level of job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and work engagement. SEM showed the significant positive effects of motivation and job satisfaction to organizational commitment and work engagement. The model also revealed that job satisfaction mediated the effect of motivation on the teachers' organizational commitment and work engagement. This implies that teachers who are motivated and satisfied in their job also have high level of work engagement and organizational commitment. The results of the study can be used by policy-makers as basis for creating policies and programs that will help improve the welfare of the teachers. Creating family spirit and strong sense of belongingness are very important for the teachers. Programs and activities should be organized in order to improve these aspects.
Keywords: motivation, work engagement, organizational commitment, job satisfaction
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Education is one sector of prime consideration in raising the country's economic competitiveness (Cabauatan & Manalo, 2018). It is for this reason that governments usually allocate a significant portion of their budget for improving the quality of education. Enough classrooms and reasonable teacher-student ratio (Khan & Iqbal, 2012), well prepared textbooks (Mahmood, 2011), enough learning resources (Jeong, & Hmelo-Silver, 2010), and technology infrastructures (Jhurree, 2005) are some of the areas that are given attention. However, the teachers, being one of the key players in education, should also be given enough attention to ensure better delivery of instruction. There is a need to provide enough support and assistance so that they could perform their tasks effectively.
By and large, it is vital that different strategies are developed to nurture the human capital involved in delivering basic education. The government and the school owners should give priority to the welfare of the teachers. Different monetary and non-monetary strategies are being introduced to keep teachers motivated to teach. Accordi ng to Adelabu (2005), teachers...