DPWH Supervisors’ Leadership Styles and the Employees’ Commitment in the Planning and Design Division

This research aimed to identify the different kinds of leadership styles applied by supervisors and examine their effects on the employees’ commitment in the Planning and Design Division (PDD) of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Regional Office 10. The study concentrated on six styles; these are autocratic, bureaucratic, democratic, laissez-faire, transactional, and transformational leadership styles. Survey questionnaires were distributed to the 66 research participants, and all were received back. This study utilized the quantitative research method; hence, central tendency measurement, variation measurement, and linear correlation were used in the data analysis. The results imply that the supervisors or the leaders of the Planning and Design Division are more inclined to optimistic or reinforcing leadership styles; these are bureaucratic, democratic, transformational, and transactional styles. With regards to the employees’ commitment, it showed that the employees’ affective, continuance, and normative commitment have high marks. Meaning, the employees working specifically in the PDD are committed to their job because; they wanted to stay, they need to stay, and they are obligated to stay. Unfortunately, the correlation of leadership styles with the employees’ commitment, as confirmed by the results, did not come out as significant.

Keywords: leadership, employees’ commitment, correlation, DPWH