Abstract: The characteristics of dedicated school heads significantly influence the success metrics and ultimately ensure that teachers remain steadfast to the organization. Committed school heads actively realize the academic institution's vision, mission, and objectives. This research analyzed servant leadership and transformational leadership styles toward the organizational commitment of school heads of the Davao Region. In this, the levels, correlation, and regression were used to predict the significant relationship between the two types of leadership styles to organizational commitment. Using cluster sampling, 398 selected school teachers among the eleven divisions of Region XI are the study's respondents. The researcher used a survey questionnaire which was adapted from the study of Dierendonck and Nuijten, (2010) The Servant Leadership Survey: Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Measurer for the Servant Leadership, study by Alayysed et al., (2020) entitled The Impact of Transformational Leadership on Organisational Performance Case Study: The University of Jordan for the Transformational Leadership, and study of Alam (2011) Evaluation of Allen and Meyer’s Organizational Commitment Scale: A Cross-Cultural Application in Pakistan which involves three components: Affective Commitment, Continuance Commitment, and Normative Commitment for the Organizational Commitment Survey. The basic criteria that determined the participants include being a permanent teacher in the public schools of Davao Region with at least three years of service in the current station. Results show that the level of servant leadership skills and transformational leadership skills are very high, and the organizational commitment of school heads is high. The connection between servant leadership skills and organizational commitment revealed a notable moderate positive linear relationship, indicating a significant impact on organizational commitment. In contrast, transformational leadership skills exhibited a minimal correlation, suggesting an inadequate relationship with organizational commitment. Therefore, while servant leadership skills showed a meaningful moderate positive linear relationship with organizational commitment, transformational leadership skills displayed only a negligible correlation.
The findings suggest that a follow-up study should be undertaken, focusing on the negligible correlation between transformational leadership and organizational commitment, given that the majority of existing research in this area indicates a significant relationship. Additionally, it is advisable to investigate the inadequacy of the connection between servant leadership and transformational leadership, as both leadership styles are purported to have a beneficial effect on organizations.
Keywords: servant leadership, transformational leadership, organizational commitment.
Title: The Influence of Servant and Transformational Leadership toward Organization Commitment
Author: Maria Teresa T. Bondoc
International Journal of Novel Research in Education and Learning
ISSN 2394-9686
Vol. 12, Issue 2, March 2025 - April 2025
Page No: 6-17
Novelty Journals
Website: www.noveltyjournals.com
Published Date: 07-April-2025
