Abstract
Many Philippine schools, colleges and tertiary institutions struggled to restructure their educational institutions with the full implementation of K-12 and the advent of Outcomes-Based Education in Philippine Educational System since 2016 in compliance with the International Qualification Standards utilizing different strategies for their survival and growth. This research aimed to determine the impact of institutional downsizing towards work satisfaction and clinical instructors' workplace commitment in Region VI. The study employed a descriptive-correlational design utilizing a survey method. Qualitative data were obtained to enrich survey results. Ninety-one (91) clinical instructors in various nursing colleges in Region VI, Philippines were chosen as actual participants using a stratified random sampling. Data collected were analyzed using appropriate descriptive, inferential statistics and qualitative analysis. The overall interpretation indicates a moderate level of work satisfaction (grand mean of 3.81) and clinical instructors' workplace commitment (grand mean of 4.20) in Region VI; there is no significant relationship between clinical instructors' workplace commitment and profile variables except for area of assignment (χ<sup>2</sup> = 16.217, p = 0.013). There is no significant relationship between institutional downsizing and workplace commitment. However, there is a significant relationship between work satisfaction and workplace commitment (χ<sup>2</sup> = 100.2, p = 0.000). The study concluded that clinical instructors' perception of the impact of restructuring has little effect on their work satisfaction and workplace commitment but undergone various struggles.
Highlights
Philippine tertiary institutions are going through a dynamic change and are using different strategies for their struggle, survival and growth
Institutional downsizing is the conscious use of personnel reductions when faced with difficult economic conditions [4], and these changes were described by Lawson and Angle [5] as “trigger events”, which initiated knowledge shifts and stir up feelings and emotions that elicited different reactions because the effort of many educational tertiary institutions goes into separation packages and support for lay off employees as a result of downsizing with little attention given to the retained employees who are remaining in educational institutions [6]
The researcher administered the questionnaire to thirty (30) clinical instructors in two particular College of Nursing in Iloilo City who were not included in the study eventually and was subjected to Cronbach coefficient alpha test to establish its reliability coefficients and the results revealed 0.892 for Institutional Downsizing, 0.960 for Work Satisfaction and 0.836 for Workplace Commitment respectively which indicated that the questionnaire has a high degree of reliability after consultation with a statistician
Summary
Philippine tertiary institutions are going through a dynamic change and are using different strategies for their struggle, survival and growth. Institutional downsizing is the conscious use of personnel reductions when faced with difficult economic conditions [4], and these changes were described by Lawson and Angle [5] as “trigger events”, which initiated knowledge shifts and stir up feelings and emotions that elicited different reactions because the effort of many educational tertiary institutions goes into separation packages and support for lay off employees as a result of downsizing with little attention given to the retained employees who are remaining in educational institutions [6]
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