Analysis of the effect of transformational and transactional leadership behaviour on organizational commitment

The aim of this study is to expose the effect of transformational and transactional leadership behaviour on organizational commitment in organizations. The behaviours of the leadership may become different in organizations. There can be transformational leadership behaviour in some organizations, could be transactional leadership behaviour in others and both transformational and transactional leadership behaviour also can be seen together in some organizations. In this study, the relation between organizational commitment itself and transformational and transactional leadership behaviour which effects the organizational commitment of the employees has been investigated.After discussing the literature related to the subject, two different revised questionnaires have been used. The first one is organizational commitment questionnaire developed by Allen and Mayer and the second one is multi factorial leadership questionnaire developed by Avolio and Bass. This measurement has been applied to the employees working in 4 and 5 star accommodation organizations in Antalya, Muğla and Aydın. This study is a descriptive study. The number of the employees working in 4 and 5 star accommodation organizations in the places above has been taken into account by considering the number of the bed they have. According to this calculation there are approximately 95.499 employees in total to be worked on. The size of the sample was calculated as 597. The findings of the research has been evaluated by using the tests such as frequency analyse, correlation analyse, t-test and ANOVA test in statistical pocket program .The significant level is accepted as 0,05.In the study, the level of the organizational commitment of the employees has occurred as medium. It has been exposed that there is a relationship between both transformational and transactional leadership and organizational commitment. The result of the study also showed that the relation between transformational leadership and organizational commitment is much stronger than the relation between transactional leadership and organizational commitment. The strong relation between transformational leadership and organizational commitment in organizations requires a strong support to the leadership given by organizations. Organizational commitment depends on some of the demographic factors. At the same time the demographic characteristics of the employees can also effect on the transformational and transactional leadership consideration.