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    The Effect of Leadership Style on Employee Commitment in the Case of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia
    (A.A.U, 2024-06-04) Hamid Reshid; Habtamu Endris (PhD)
    The study aimed at assessing the effect of leadership styles on employees’ commitment at Commercial Bank of Ethiopia. In guiding this research, the researcher adopted mixed research approach. Descriptive and explanatory research design was deem appropriate due to the fact that it allows analysis about causation and relation of variables. Structured and unstructured questionnaires were collected from 183 questionnaires distributed. And 10 respondents were participated during interview. The study adopted probability and non-probability methods. The leadership styles were measured through the Multi factor Leadership Questionnaire developed modified to fit the context of the study. Descriptive and inferential statistical techniques were used for data analysis. In inferential statistics, Pearson’s correlation and regression analysis were used to assess both relationships and effects as per the hypotheses of the study. The findings show that transformational leadership style significantly affect employee commitment at the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia followed by the servant leadership style and supportive leadership style. Employee commitment is above average. Overall, scores in transformational leadership style were found to be strongly correlated with of employee commitment. Transactional and participative leadership significantly affect employee commitment. Both the qualitative and quantitative data indicated that transformational leadership style has the most significant effect on employee commitment followed by servant leadership and supportive leadership style. It has been recommended that supervisors and managers in CBE need to use transformational, servant and supportive leadership style since they significantly affect employee commitment.