Abstract: This study dealt with the impact of leadership to employees’ productivity and engagement. The research scope and limitations were the OFW (Overseas Filipino Workers) respondents working in public and private organization and residing in Manama area only. The type of research used to discover the impact of the variables in the research study was descriptive type. In order to determine the impact of the variables in the research, the statistical tool used were frequency, percentage and the two mean tests. The study showed that the leadership style has an impact in employees’ productivity and engagement as it was shown by the number of frequency and percentage responses in the research. Both public and private organization showed that the employees are affected by the authoritarian, participative and laissez faire style of leadership when it comes to productivity and engagement.

Keywords: Productivity, Engagement, Performance, Private and Public Institutions, Leadership, Bahrain and Philippine Government, Overseas Filipino Workers

| DOI: 10.17148/IARJSET.2021.8306