A Philippine Setting: Work Motivation of Employees and Motivational Strategy Evaluation In an Industrial Establishment

The study sought to determine the work motivation of employees in an industrial establishment in the Philippines and how the motivational strategies that the company carries out are effectively translated into their workforce. The data was taken from a consented establishment and the employees were asked to answer the multi-dimension work motivation questionnaire. Qualitative data was also collected to determine the motivational strategies done by the company through an interview with their human resources department. Results showed that the workers in the industrial establishment were moderately motivated. This was constituted by the motivational dimensions with the majority of the respondents having a low amotivation score, low to moderate extrinsic regulation score, high introjected regulation score, identified regulation and intrinsic regulation score. Likewise, there was a significant prediction with three variables from the demographic data, which include the number of years in service, educational attainment and pay grade. The latter variable had the only negative predicting factor against the motivational score. The motivational score was, by theory, affected by the motivational strategy that was implored by the human resource management of the company. These strategies are categorized as work environment, rewards, punishment, leadership, and non-monetary incentives. Thus, the study recommended that there is room for additional strategies that can be made and added to current practices in industrial management, especially in the implementing department, to increase the motivation of workers

Clinical Diagnosis of Business Organization (NZD Manuka Health and Beauty Products) in the Philippines: A Qualitative Study

There is the quest for sustainable eradication of threats to enhance the health of organizations. This study's curiosity is to tackle the concept of determining how an organization diagnoses the threats in its environment. This study is qualitative research and content analysis method has been adopted by the researcher. The research design of content analysis is used to create inferences from papers and observations. Permission was sort from three people before the interview, through video recording. The recorded video interview data was transcribed by an expect transcriber, and were analyzed, and interpreted by the researcher. The study revealed that effective clinical diagnosis that leads to changes requires a sense of urgency, the establishment of a strong team of change agents. The development of a vision and strategy through careful and well-thought-out planning, and the communication of the vision for change to the business organization, as well as the empowerment of team members to help and participate in change initiatives, and the generation of shifts. The members of the organizations may not have a mutual perspective on the organizational diagnosis. Therefore, the onus rest on professionals to consider obtaining data from various sources and consider this in their diagnosis and procedures. The study recommends that different quantitative methods can be used to diagnose business organizations

Exploratory Factor Analysis of Political Engagement Questionnaire: A College Students’ Perspectives

There is an increasing number of Seventh Day Adventists (SDAs) who engaged in politics.  Church members have varied perception of their engagement in politics. Thus, this study aimed to develop a psychometrically validated instrument that assessed students’ perception of political engagement among SDAs.  Survey questionnaires were administered to 105 college students. Exploratory factor analysis with Varimax rotation was conducted resulting to a two-dimensional structure of the students’ perception of political engagement among SDAs.  Good internal consistency reliability was indicated by a Cronbach alpha estimate of .745 in the final scale.  A two-factor model was generated specifying that SDAs joined politics because they served as church ambassadors to the country (Factor 1) and politics engagement is a Personal Belief and Modeling  (Factor 2). The total percent of variance accounted for the model is 50.78 where the 32% is contributed by the Factor 1. This study concludes that the Political Engagement Questionnaire have sufficiently strong construct validity evidence. This developed questionnaires and the corresponding construct may be useful in studies investigating patterns of political engagement of SDAs. However, it can be still improved using larger population.  Other implications are also discussed