LEADERSHIP STYLE AND POLICE ATTITUDE AMONG POLICE OFFICERS IN DIGOS CITY

Abstract

Police leadership styles and their attitudes have been regarded to be tightly Dunched together yet this notion remains a grave controversy with several theories contradicting with each other. Despite of the existence of numerous researches investigating both constructs, only little study found that generates the correlation of leadership styles of police officers and their attitudes but also weakened by certain scholars who negated this belief. Hence, this was within the interest of this paper to examine further the correlation of leadership styles and attitudes of police officers in order to fill the gap that separates them. The study also determined the level of police attitudes of the police officers as well as the level of their leadership styles in terms of transformational and transactional leadership. Through the employment of mean and Pearson product moment correlation, the data collected from the 80 non-commissioned police officers selected randomly by the researchers were analyzed and interpreted. The employment of descriptive-correlational research design enables this study to descriptively interpret the results computed from the responses of the police officers-participants. Generated findings summarized that leadership styles in terms of transactional and transformational leadership and police attitude level are very high and have been embodied among the police officers. Thus, there is a significant relationship between leadership styles of police officers and their attitudes.