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    Leadership Style and Employees’ Organizational Commitment
    (Addis Ababa University, 2014-05) Tadesse, Mekonen; Teklu, Tilahun (PhD)
    The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between employees’ perceptions of their immediate supervisors’ leadership styles and their Organizational Commitments. Bass & Avolio's (1995) Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ Form 5X) was used to measure leadership styles of supervisors. And Allen& Meyer’s (1997) Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ) was used to measure employees’ organizational commitments. Participants of the study were 106middle and top level managers working for various private, governmental, non-governmental and international organizations in Addis Ababa who are also attending the Executive- MBA program at Addis Ababa University. The result showed that the level of Affective Commitment is generally low and that it is unaffected by most of the leadership styles. The only correlations found regarding Affective commitment were very weak and negative correlation with Attributed Idealized Influence and very weak but positive correlation with Intellectual Stimulation. All of the transformational leadership and Contingent Reward styles showed the existence of weak but positive relationship with Normative Organizational Commitment. Idealized Influence (Attributed) showed weak and negative relationship with Continuance Commitment while Managementby- exception (Active) and Laissez-faire showed weak but positive relationship. Keywords:- Leadership style, Employee commitment