Leadership Style and Employee Commitment in Petron Panabo City Davao Del Norte

This study examined to determine the significant relationship between Leadership Style and Employee Commitment in Petron Panabo City Davao del Norte. The independent variable is Leadership Style, the indicators used in the study are Directive, Supportive, Participative, and Achievement-Oriented leadership style with overall mean of the 4.78 classified as ‘very high’. In relation to their engagement, the dependent variable is employee commitment along with the indicators used are Identity with the organization, willingness to stay and organizational loyalty with overall mean of 4.86 and labeled as ‘very high’. The researchers used a quantitative, non-experimental and correlational design, with 24 employees participate to examine the relationship between Leadership style and employee commitment in Petron in Panabo City. The statistical tool used in this study were weighted mean and Pearson-r. The computed r-value is 0.572** and is associated with p-value of 0.004 less than 0.05. The result is rejected, therefore there is significant relationship between Leadership Style and Employee Commitment in Panabo City.