WORK MOTIVATION AND JOB SATISFACTION AS CORRELATES OF TRAINING COMPETENCE OF THE REGIONAL STAFF OF PUBLIC SAFETY COLLEGE IN THE PHILIPPINES

Teachers' seriousness in teaching depends on teachers' work motivation, job satisfaction and professional teaching competencies. The pendulum that will strike the balance between quality teaching and quality learning is basically founded on the teachers' work motivation and job satisfaction. With this premise, the study probed into the correlates of the training competence of the regional staff of public safety college in the Philippines for the purpose of proposing an integrated training development program to ensure a highly competent training staff so that the college can be able to cope with the demands and complexities of a fast changing educational milieu that will propel its continuing growth and stability as an institution of higher learning. This study used descriptive-correlational method. Results revealed that their work motivation and job satisfaction are both measured to be of moderate extent while their training competence is high. Further, there is moderate positive correlation between work motivation and training competence and that there is moderate negative correlation between job satisfaction and training competence. When combined, work motivation and job satisfaction have no correlation to training competence thereby acceptance of the null hypothesis implying that their competence is not associated to their motivation and satisfaction levels.