The Effect of Leadership Styles on Employee Commitment in Case of Ethiopian Red Cross Society
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2021-09
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The purpose of this study to examines the influence of leadership style on organizational
commitment in the case of Ethiopian Red Cross society (ERCS). 50 ERCS Leaders and
Employees (12 managers and 38 Employees) participated in the study from the target population
of 266. All respondents Employees and Leaders rated their manager’s leadership style and their
Leadership styles. Based on two different instruments Bass and Avolio’s (1997) multi-factor
leadership questionnaire (MLQ) and Meyer and Allen’s (1997) organizational commitment
questionnaire (OCQ) respectively. Various descriptive Correlation and regression statistical
outputs were generated by using spss version 16 and carefully analyzed to look for relationships
between Leadership styles and Employee commitment. The results of this study revealed that
employees understanding for their Leaders are a strong positive and significant relationship
between transformational leadership and affective commitment; Transformational leadership
was also found to have a significant and positive relationship with normative commitment and
continuance commitment. Transactional leadership had moderate but significant positive
correlation with Affective, continuance and normative commitment, and Laissez-faire results
indicated a weak negative and insignificant correlation to affective commitment and normative
commitment. Overall organization Leaders suggested to improve their leadership styles to play
important roles in determining levels of organizational commitment (affective commitment,
continuance commitment and normative commitment)and also trying to crate favorable
environment for employees
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Leadership Styles, Employees Commitment, ERCS