Followership styles of the rank-and-file employees as correlates of management kills among middle and top officials / Nina Marie D. Avendano. 6

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ABSTRACT: This descriptive survey and correlational research was undertaken in the Commission of Elections- Intramuros, Manila to know the self-assessment and perception of rank-and-file employees and middle and top officials on followership styles and management skills and its correlation. A modified followership styles and management skills survey questionnaire was used in this study, wherein 84 respondents from rank-and-file employees and 36 respondents from middle and top officials answered the survey. Statistical treatments used were frequency, percentage and Chi-square. This study found out the assessed and perceived followership styles were partners, implementers and individualists. Partner was the dominant followership style. It also found out the assessed and perceived management skills were democratic, laissez-faire and autocratic. Democratic was the dominant management skill. The study also found out that there was a significant difference between the followership styles of the rank-and-file employees and the middle and top official's perceived followership styles of the rank-and-file employees. Although, there was no significant difference between the management skills of the middle and top officials and the rank-and-file employees' perceived management skills of the middle and top officials. In terms of correlation, there was no significant relationship between the dominant followership and the dominant style and the dominant management skills as perceived by both groups.

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