Preferred management styles of employees at selected business process outsourcing companies in Iloilo City

Abstract

This research aims to determine the preferred management style of 165 employees at selected Business Process Outsourcing companies in Iloilo City when categorized by sex and employment status. Adapted questionnaires were used to determine the preferred management style of employees. Researchers have also utilized purposive sampling method, SPSS version 25, descriptive statistics, and descriptive research design. The results exhibited that employees, when grouped as a whole, preferred transformational while the least preferred was authoritarian. When categorized by sex, the most preferred was transformational while the least preferred was authoritarian. When grouped according to employment status, the most preferred was transformational whereas, the least preferred was laissez-faire management style.