Rosin- Zaens, Reina Peñafrancia G. Unpublished Masteral Thesis, University of Nueva Caceres, City of Naga, 1996.
Keywords: Perceived Leadership Behavior
This study aimed to find out the perceived leadership behavior of the managers of Naga City- based top ten commercial establishments. Specifically, it aimed to answer the following questions: 1) To what extent do these managers demonstrate leadership along supportiveness, interaction facilitation, goal emphasis and work facilitation as perceived by the managers and work force? 2) On what aspect do they manifest leadership strengths? Weaknesses? 3) Is there a significant difference between the managers' perception and the work force?
The descriptive-comparative survey was used in order to determine the leadership behavior of Naga city-based top ten commercial establishments as perceived by the managers themselves and the work force.
Major conclusions wer3e: 1) The managers perceived themselves to exhibit very satisfactory leadership behavior, whereas, the work force perceived the mangers' behavioral traits as satisfactory along supportiveness, interaction facilitation, goal emphasis, and work facilitation; 2) all the perceived leadership behaviors were considered strengths by both the managers and the work force. The managers perceived themselves to have very strong leadership behavior, while the work force perceived the managers to have strong leadership behavior in all the leadership dimensions; and 3) There was a significant difference on the perception of the managers and the work force about the leadership behavior of the former on some traits but is some behavior, no significant difference was noted. The significant difference on the perception was more noted along supportiveness and interaction facilitation; whereas, the perception of the two group was not significantly difference along goal emphasis and work facilitation.