The relationship between leadership behaviors, organizational commitment and job satisfaction with firm performance: A research upon public employee

The presence of the direct, positive effect of the relation between the concepts of satisfaction, organizational commitment and leadership was examined in the public sector, was tested on the basis of long term experiment. Questionnaire prepared for the purpose was performed in July 2013 on 234 employees working in the public sector. Within this study, questions about demographic characteristics, were based on Allen and Meyer's organizational commitment classifications; organizational commitment components were examined under four headings as emotional commitment, conscientious commitment loyalty to institution factor and normative commitment. For organizations, there has been found that mostly preferred component of organizational commitment is the emotional commitment. It was seen that this was respectively followed by conscientious commitment, loyalty to institution and normative commitment. There is a positive relationship between the organizational commitment of employees' and their high efficiency; in this context, that means there is still direct positive relationship with job satisfaction. In the study it was came through that as person directing the followers as a result of the integration of organization's goals and values with employees' goals and values; leadership behavior was improved and even a little bit positively affected job satisfaction and organizational commitment.