Leadership is one of those concepts that are very hard to define. It is one of the terms most widely used in many areas of human activity, including armed forces, business, politics, religion, sports, and especially, education. This study aims to determine the school heads leadership and management practices on the organizational commitment and performance. The study used the quantitative research, descriptive assessment and correlational research design. Descriptive-correlational design was used to determine the school heads leadership and management practices on the organizational commitment and performance. Simple random sampling was applied from a population of teachers in Junior High School in the City Schools Division of Dasmariñas. The instrument used in the study was survey questionnaire-checklist. Findings show that the level of Leadership Practices in terms of Strategic thinking, Planning and Delivery, People Management and innovation, Communication Skills, Persuasion and Influence, Empathy, and Flexibility along with the level of Management Practices in terms of People Management, Innovation, Strategic planning, Performance Monitoring was of very great extent, implying the effectiveness and efficacy educational leadership and management, and that it must be responsive to both global and local developments that directly impact teaching and learning through changes in curriculum in terms of pedagogical and assessment practices. Findings also show that the level of the Organizational Commitment in terms of Affective, Continuance, and Normative commitment along with level of Organizational Performance in terms of Task Performance, Contextual Performance, Adaptive Performance was a very great extent, which implies that the practices of leaders and teachers in schools increase student achievement by improving teaching and learning in the school, and that behavior at work can contribute independently to effective outcomes for organizations. It also revealed that relationship between school heads leadership and management practices and organizational commitment was not observed to have any significant relationship with Organizational Commitment except for the Performance Monitoring of management practices, and the relationship between school heads leadership and management practices and organizational performance was not observed to have any significant relationship. Based on the drawn conclusions, the following recommendations were formulated: (1)it suggests to have a continuous process of effective people management that will help to enhance leadership and management practices and learn various strategies for further development with regard to school improvement and teacher performance, (2) teachers and school head may give emphasis on organizational commitment and performance by setting common goal, that deeply contributes to the future of students and schools, and (3) future researchers may change the variables and expand the scope and limitations of the study for the improvement of the study.

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