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| Title: | The relationship between Leadership Styles and Employee Commitment in Private Higher Education Institutions at Addis Ababa City |
| Authors: | Temesgen, Teshome |
| Advisors: | Tilahun Teklu (PhD) |
| Keywords: | Leadership styles, Employee commitment, PHEIs |
| Copyright: | Jun-2011 |
| Date Added: | 19-Jul-2012 |
| Publisher: | AAU |
| Abstract: | The effective leaders are enablers that directly points to competent and committed employees.
Studies in the organizational psychology and organizational behavior literatures have shown
that leadership styles and employee commitment are of major factors to the organizational
success or failure. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between
leadership styles (transactional, transformational, and laissez-faire) and employee
commitments (affective, continuance, and normative commitment) in PHEIs at AAC. Total
participants in the research were 115, included 95 academic staff and 20 leaders, with a nonresponse
rate of 27.7% from 12 PHEIs. Two separate instruments, namely multifactor
leadership questionnaire (MLQ) and organizational commitment questionnaire (OCQ), were
used to measure leadership styles and employees’ organizational commitment respectively.
The findings of the study revealed that transformational leadership style has significant and
positive correlations with affective and continuance employee commitments while
transactional leadership style has significant and positive correlation with only normative
commitment. A laissez-faire leadership style is found to be significantly and negatively
associated with employees’ affective commitment. |
| Description: | A thesis submitted to the School of Graduate Studies of Addis Ababa
University in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of
Masters in Business Administration |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3425 |
| Appears in: | Thesis - Business Adminstration
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