School Administrators’ Communication Styles and Teachers’ Motivation Among Public Secondary Schools of Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education in Sulu

Abstract

This descriptive-correlational study determines the extent of school administrators’ communication styles and teachers’ motivation among public secondary schools of Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education in Sulu (MBHTE)during school year 2022-2023. With 200 respondents, it employed frequency counts and percentage, weighted mean and standard deviation, t-test for independent samples and One-way ANOVA, and Pearson’s r. This study reveals the following findings: 1) Out of 200 teacher-respondents, majority are female gender, within 30 years old & below and 41-50 years old of age brackets, are married teachers, have bachelor’s degree, and have 5 years & below of length of service. 2) Generally, teacher-respondents in this study agreed that school administrators’ communication styles are commonly used to motivate teachers and support staff to effectively perform in their respective jobs. 3) Generally, teacher-respondents in this study agreed that secondary school teachers are oftentimes satisfied and happy of their workplace, salary, and financial benefits they receive in relation to their respective teaching jobs. 4) Variables age, gender, civil status, educational attainment, and length of service do not significantly intervene in ways how teacher-respondents assess the level of school administrators’ communication styles. 5) Variables age, gender, civil status, educational attainment, and length of service do not significantly intervene in ways how teacher-respondents assess the extent of motivation of secondary school teachers. 6) Group of teacher-respondents who generally perceived the level of administrators’ communication styles as “Agree” are not probably the same group of respondents who perceived the extent of teachers’ motivation as “Often”, respectively. 7) This seems to support the Sherman’s (1999, as cited by Bocar, 2017) who claims that the three basic communication styles such as aggressive, passive, assertive could be used to impact motivation and encouragement on other person