The relationship between perceived strategical leadership behavior and job satisfaction: The mediation role of organizational commitment

The concept of strategic leadership that comes to agenda together with the establishment of strategic management concept in companies includes leadership behaviors enabling business managers to easily adopt to rapidly changing environmental conditions and technological innovations and to enable companies to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. For this reason, strategic leadership behaviors are crucial for companies in all sectors. The aim of the study is to determine whether the perceptions of employees about strategic leadership behaviors differ according to the strategic leadership behaviors that managers evaluated themselves. In addition, the impact of employees' perceptions about strategic leadership behaviors of their managers on job satisfaction and the role of organizational commitment in this relation were also assessed in the study. The first two parts of the study included theoretical and conceptual frameworks for strategic leadership and job satisfaction. In the third part of the study; a field survey was conducted with a total of 100 participants, 50 staff members and 50 managers working at aeronautical companies in Ankara. In the light of the findings obtained from the research, it was seen that there was a statistically significant difference between employees' perceptions about strategic leadership behaviors of their managers and the strategic leadership behaviors that managers evaluated themselves. In addition, it has been found that the strategic leadership behaviors perceived by the employees has affected the job satisfaction positively and significantly.and the organizational commitment has assumed the role of partial mediation in this relation.