Malita LGU Officials Leadership Practices and Employees’ Perception on Readiness to Work from Home Arrangement
Maybeline P. Mahinay
Southern Philippines Agri-business and Marine and Aquatic School of Technology, Malita, Davao Occidental, Philippines.
Jocel D. Bongao
Southern Philippines Agri-business and Marine and Aquatic School of Technology, Malita, Davao Occidental, Philippines.
Glenford C. Franca *
Southern Philippines Agri-business and Marine and Aquatic School of Technology, Malita, Davao Occidental, Philippines.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Aims: To know the level of the leadership practices of the officials in terms of modelling the way, inspiring a shared vision, challenging the process, enabling others to act and encouraging the heart. And, to know the level of LGU’s readiness to work from home as perceived by the municipal employees.
Study Design: Descriptive-correlational.
Place and Duration of Study: Malita, Davao Occidental, Southern Philippines during the School Year 2020-2021
Methodology: This involved the systematic investigation of the nature of relationships, or associations between and among dependent and independent variables and was most commonly used when seeking statistical relationship between two variables without manipulating the data themselves. Leadership practices of LGU and LGU employees' readiness to work from home arrangement as perceived by the following domains, such that of model the way, challenge the process, enable others to act, and encouraging the heart increase, the level of employees' preparedness to work from home also increases.
Conclusion: Since the level of inspire a shared vision, one of the leadership practices domains, increases, the LGU officials need to know its meaning and open themselves into communication structure that allowed employee to participate. The more optimistic a leader about the future, the more effectively he or she may transmit it to others. Studies related to this topic were hereby recommended.
Keywords: Malita LGU officials, leadership practices, employees’ perception, readiness, work from home arrangement