The primary objective of this study is to assess and compare the levels of organizational identification, employee engagement, organizational commitment, and perceptions of organizational support between contract-of-service and regular non-teaching employees in a state university in Iligan City. This study investigates whether Of among non-teaching employees mediates the relationships between OS, EE, and OC. The data were collected from 172 non- teaching employees from different offices in MSU-IIT using an online survey form. The collected data was analyzed using SmartPLS4 and Partial Least Square of Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) to test the hypotheses. The results show that Ol is a crucial mediator between OS and AC for all employees, with contract-of-service employees exhibiting slightly stronger effects. Additionally, the significance of Ol emerges prominently in the relationship between OS and Continuance Commitment (CC), specifically for contract-of-service employees. indicating potential variations across employment types. Ol is a significant mediator for regular non-teaching employees, implying that employment status may influence how OS impacts Normative Commitment (NC) through Ol.

Future research can also be conducted on a larger sample size, including other government higher educational institutions in Mindanao, to generalize the findings. One such limitation is the scope of this study, which is limited to a state university in Iligan City only. This work is limited to the MSU-IIT non-teaching employees; a cross-cultural study may be conducted to see if any variations occur in other cultural settings. A comparative study among the non-teaching employees of government and private higher educational institutions is also suggested. This research contributes to the broader understanding of employee dynamics, especially the non-teaching employees within the academic sector, specifically in the Philippine context, with implications for improving institutional performance and employee well-being.

• Organizational Identification

• Organizational Support

• Organizational Commitment

• Employee Engagement

• Contract-of-Service

• State Unversity