The Management Styles and the Level of Employees' Motivation: The Case of an International Airport

Abstract

The purpose of this correlational research was to examine the relationship between the adopted management styles and the level of employees’ motivation of an International Airport in Angeles City. The independent variables were the autocratic, democratic, paternalistic and laissez-faire management styles. The dependent variable was employees of level motivation. A survey was developed and distributed to twelve (12) managers and seventy-one (71) employees in fifteen (15) departments. Furthermore, the questionnaire was adapted from the study of different researchers with the same field of interest in management styles and levels of employees’ motivation. The result of the study indicated a significant positive correlation between paternalistic management style and the levels of employees’ motivation used by the managers and employee motivation level. It denotes that employees are motivated whenever the management style imposed is paternalistic. The employees need a type of management that paternalistic to obtain and maintain standards. Managers of Clark International Airport in Angeles City Pampanga may use the results of this study to better support employee motivation. This style generates higher quality performance on the employees’ tasks in the workplace. Thus, organizations with a paternalistic management style improve and increase the level of employees’ motivation and sustain a congruous relationship, and achieve quality performances at work.