dc.description.abstract | This study aimed to examine the relationship between leadership style and employees’ commitment among selected cooperatives in Panabo City. The independent variable of the study is Leadership Style with the indicators of transformational, transactional, autocratic, laissez-faire leaderships .The dependent variable of the study is commitment with the indicators of identity with the organization, willingness to stay, organizational loyalty. This study applied a quantitative non experimental correlational method for sampling thirty-eight employees in selected cooperatives in Panabo City. This study employed survey questionnaires of both variables. Moreover, the statistical tools used in interpretation of data were weighted mean and Pearson-r. The over-all mean for the level of leadership style is 4.06 with the descriptive equivalent of moderate which is indicated by transformational, transactional, autocratic, laissez-faire with the mean of 4.49,4.30, 3.49, 3.59 respectively while the level of commitment which is indicated by identity with the organization, willingness to stay, organizational loyalty with the overall mean of 4.50 with the descriptive equivalent of very high. The findings show that there is a significant relationship between Leadership Style and employees’ commitment among selected cooperatives in Panabo City.
Keywords: Leadership Style, Transformational, Transactional, Laissez-Faire,Employees’ Commitment, Identity with the organization, Organizational loyalty, Willingness to Stay. | en_US |