Ethical Leadership, Organizational Commitment and Job Satisfaction in Local Colleges

he main purpose of this study is to determine the ethical leadership, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction of employees working on local colleges. The study was carried out with 235 participants working at the three local colleges in Batangas Province. Completing the research, it was found that organizational commitment in terms of emotional and continuous commitment, as well as ethical leadership, have a modestly favorable relationship, whereas normative commitment and ethical leadership have a significant positive relationship. Likewise, there is a modest to moderate positive relationship between ethical leadership and job satisfaction in terms of pay, benefits, and job pleasure. Furthermore, there is a significant strong positive relationship between ethical leadership and job satisfaction in terms of interpersonal relationships, policy, and administration, as well as a significant low to moderate positive relationship between organizational commitment and job satisfaction in terms of compensation, benefits, and working conditions; while moderate to strong positive relations exist between organizational commitment and job satisfaction in terms of compensation, benefits, and working conditions. The benefits of the suggested framework and its implications for the enhancement of organizational commitment and future research on it are discoursed.

Keywords – ethical leadership, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction