Leadership Behaviour and Anticipated Work Commitment among Police Officer in Sentul District Police Headquarters (IPD Sentul)

The study aimed to investigate various aspects of leadership behaviour and its impact on work commitment among police officers at IPD Sentul, Kuala Lumpur. This study applies quantitative research methods using descriptive analysis, correlation, and regression. The objective of the study is to investigate the: (i) leadership behaviour; (ii) level of work commitment; (iii) relationship between leadership behaviour and work commitment; and (iv) level of strength of leadership behaviour and anticipated work commitment among police officers at IPD Sentul. The respondents of this study were 145 police officers in IPD Sentul. A set of questionnaires was distributed, consisting of leadership behaviour (LB) and work commitment (WC).
Data were analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 26.0 software. The analysis found that for 'supportive leadership', the highest mean value in terms of leadership behaviour (Mean:33.8, SD:5.34), and the lowest mean value is ‘achievement leadership' (Mean:12.5, SD:1.97). The level of work commitment by police officers at IPD Sentul recorded the highest mean value in terms of ‘affective commitment’ (Mean:32.7, SD:6.01). The Pearson correlation coefficient (r-value) was.665 and the p-value < 0.01, and this showed a high correlation and strong relationship between leadership behaviour and work commitment. In summary, the overall model supports the existence of a significant relationship between leadership behaviour and work commitments (H₁).
However, only ‘support-orientated' leadership behaviour (H₃) shows a significant positive relationship, while direction-orientated, participatory-orientated, and achievement-orientated leadership behaviours (H₂, H₄ and H₅) do not demonstrate significant relationships with work commitments based on the provided analysis. Based on the findings of this study, some implications and recommendations for future studies have been discussed.