Correlation between perceived leadership styles and the three variants of organizational commitment of area coordinators in Quezon City Hall Operation Division Office.

Abstract

The study intends to find out if there is a relationship between the perceived leadership styles (directive and participative) and the three variants of organizational commitment (affective, continuance and normative) of the Area Coordinators in Quezon City Hall Operation Division Office. Through the Slovin’s Formula (a=.05) and Probability Proportionate to Sampling method, a total of 87 respondents were chosen, 20 or 18.02% each coming from Districts I and II-A, 16 or 14.41% each from Districts II-B and III while 15 or 13.51% from District IV. The Leadership Style Survey by Clark (1998) was used to measure the perception of the Area Coordinators on the leadership styles of their heads while the dimension and items of Organizational Commitment by Meyer and Allen (2004) was employed to obtain the Area Coordinator’s organizational commitment. Central Tendency (Mean) and Spearman’s Rho were used to compute the data and find out whether there is a relationship between the two variables.

Findings show that the District Coordinators (heads) have high scores on their leadership styles implying that directive (Score=28.36, M=4.05) and participative (Score=28.44, M=4.06) leadership styles are normally employed. In addition, Area Coordinators have high affective (Score=22.86, M=3.81) and normative (Score=24.38, M=4.04) commitment with a moderately strong continuance (Score=21.95, M=3.66) commitment. Furthermore, the research found out that there are moderate significant relationships among all variables. Directive Leadership Style is moderately significantly correlated with Affective Commitment (p=.515, a=.01), Continuance Commitment (p=.475, a=.01) and Normative Commitment (p=.410, a=.01). Moreover, Participative Leadership Style is also moderately significantly correlated with Affective (p=.512, a=.01), Continuance (p=.449, a=.01) and Normative Commitment (p=.440, a=.01).