LEADERSHIP STYLES OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES OFFICERS IN NUEVA VIZCAYA: ITS CORRELATION WITH PERSONNEL’S JOB SATISFACTION AND PERCEIVED ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT

Abstract

This study was conducted to determine the leadership styles of Environment and Natural Resources Officers in Nueva Vizcaya and their relationships to the personnel's job satisfaction and perceived organizational support. The study was conducted during the school year 2020 – 2021.

Specifically, it aimed to determine how the employees of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Nueva Vizcaya perceive the leadership styles of their Environment and Natural Resources Officers along transformational, transactional, laissez-faire, autocratic, democratic, coaching, strategic, charismatic, visionary, cross-cultural, team and facilitative; to determine how the respondents assess their level of job satisfaction according to pay, promotion, supervision, fringe benefits, contingent rewards, operating procedures, coworkers, nature of work, and communication.

Also, it aimed to determine how the respondents assess their perceived organizational support; to find out if there is a significant relationship between the leadership styles of Environment and Natural Resources Officers and the respondents' perceived job satisfaction; to find out if there is significant relationship between the leadership styles of Environment and Natural Resources Officers and the perceived organizational support of the respondents.

Furthermore, it aimed to find out if the respondents' perceptions of their job satisfaction relate significantly to their perceived organizational support; and to craft an organization development and planning intervention, based on the significant findings of the study, that could heighten the job satisfaction, perceived organizational support, and leadership styles of DENR in Nueva Vizcaya.