Strategic planning process and transformational leadership of heads of government social welfare agencies in Davao City

Abstract

This was a descriptive-correlational study aimed at determining the strategic planning process alongside transformational leadership of heads of government welfare service agencies. The universal sampling used included all 100 office heads and employees of DSWD-XI and CSSDO Davao city. Statistical tools utilized were mean and standard deviation, pearson product moment correlation and multiple regression analysis. Salient findings indicated high levels of both strategic planning process and transformational leadership of heads of social welfare agencies. The correlation test revealed a strong relationship between variables. Regression analysis showed a combined influence of strategic planning process indicators over the transformational leadership of heads of social welfare agencies. It was also revealed that no specific indicator of strategic planning, in its singular capacity, can significantly influence transformational leadership. The study concluded that heads of offices of government social welfare agencies have the capacities to reform their organization into an excellent-performing agency. The study recommended that office heads at Department of Social Welfare and Development and City Social Service and Development Office should at all times manifest strategic planning processes as well as transformational leadership with all their indicators in order to reach very high level of capacities in those areas of competence.