The effect of transformational leadership on organizational commitment and employees

In today's conditions where important developments about information and communication technologies are experienced, change and transformation are needed to keep pace with the increasingly competition from finance to industry, from education to health. Transformational leaders who are open transformation, changes and innovations, have strong predictions, think analytically and produce solutions that can shape the future in line with the vision of the organization can realize. Transformational leaders create a vision and mobilize the organization in line with this vision. By transforming the attitudes and behaviors of the employees, they create commitment to realize the mission and goals of the organization. They devote time to employees by following an open door policy. This approach increases the organizational commitment and efficiency of employees. From this point of view, the aim of this research is to examine the effect of transformational leadership on organizational commitment of employees. In order to realize this aim, the first part of the study includes the concepts of leadership and transformational leadership literature, in the second part, the field research and analysis results examining the effect of transformational leadership on organizational commitment of employees. Within the scope of the research, a survey was conducted on 230 people working in a municipality in the province of Trabzon. In the study, 11 sub-hypotheses were tested under 3 main hypotheses. While 5 of these were accepted, 9 were rejected. The results of the research show that the organizational commitment of the employees is at medium level. Keywords: Leadership, Transformational Leadership, Organizational Commitment