Management Skills and Job Commitment Perceived by Workers in a Municipality of Peru in Times of Covid-19

Abstract

The objective of research was determining relationship between management competences of trusted public manager and labor commitment received byworkers of DistrictMunicipality of Pocollay, Peru in Covid-19 times. Research was descriptive - correlational in a cross-sectional design. Population was total number of workers of DistrictMunicipality of Pocollay (DMP) made up of 84 people. A census sample was used. Likert-scalequestionnaireswereused. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and Spearman's range correlation. Results showed 51.2% of municipal workers perceive that management skills in their public managers show a high level relative to work commitment shown at an average level. An average level of worker engagement and its dimensions were evident, affective commitment, regulatory commitment and a high level of continuity commitment. A moderate and significant positive relationship was observed betweenperception of managementcompetences (GCc) of public manager in their results-oriented dimensions (OR) and teamwork (TE) with labor commitment (CL) of workers. A moderate and weak positive relationshipbetweenpublicmanager'sperception of GCc in hisvocation of service (VS) dimension with the CL was evident.