This study aimed to reveal the public
leadership behavior of supervisors and professional
commitment of employees: mediating role of work
engagement of employees of local government unit.
Utilizing the non-experimental quantitative research
design employing correlation technique of research and
mediation analysis for an in-depth analysis of the study,
the researcher utilized adapted questionnaires to three
hundred ten employees of local government unit of
province of Davao Oriental, Philippines, in the school
year 2022-2023. Mean, Pearson r and Path Analysis were
the statistical tools used. The results revealed that public
leadership behavior of supervisors had a very high extent
in all indicators and the professional commitment had
high mean level. Whereas, the work engagement had a
high mean rating. Furthermore, findings revealed that
public leadership behavior and work engagement showed
significant relationships, work engagement and
professional commitment and public leadership behavior
and professional commitment.
Utilizing the path analysis, the results of the study
revealed partial mediating effect of work engagement on
the relationship between public leadership behavior and
professional commitment. This implies that the
mediating role played by work engagement of
government employees partially assisted in clarifying the
process that was responsible for the relationship between
public leadership behavior and professional
commitment.
Keywords : Public administration, work engagement, public leadership behavior and professional commitment., Philippines.