Abstract:
The research intended to provide groundwork data for the identification of the
factors that affect retention motivation of employees working for government offices.
In the Philippines, much of the human resource management researches concentrate
on the private sector thus having a lack of information for those that work in the
public. It looked at the extent to which identified factors influenced the retention of
employees in the public offices. Herzberg's Two Factor Theory was the framework
used for the basis of the instrument and the analysis of the results. The Department of
Education, Central office was the primary source institution of the study. All of the
the ninety respondents5 came from this government agency. The researches objectives
centered on describing the organization profile of the agency and then merely present
the factors affecting retention motivation of the employees of DepEd in hope that it
may provide initial data for future research. The socio-demographic profiles of the
respondents were also established to present interesting relations between this and the
retention motivation factors. A quantitative research design was used with a survey
questionnaire as the main instrument. The top and bottom retention motivating factors
were tabulated and analyzed and has yielded the following results: Work Itself
Interpersonal Relationships and Achievement are the factors that affect the
employee's motivation to stay in the agency while Possibility of Growth, Job Security
and Advancement are lhe factors that least motivate them to stay in the agency.
