Impacts of managers' leadership behaviors on employees' organizational commitments and a research

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between managers? leadership behaviors and employees? commitments to their organizations. Organizational commitment has been examined both as an independent and dependent variable in many studies over the past four decades and its relationship with various organizational variables has been founded. When these studies analyzed, its attracted attention that there has been limited research that specifically addressed the relationship between leader behavior and employee commitment.In this study; firstly, theoretical basis for both organizational commitment and leadership behavior subjects handled by making detailed literature research. In the research section; a survey form designed, using The Organizational Commitment Questionnaire devised by Lyman W. Porter et al. (1974) to measure employees? commitment levels, and The Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire devised by staff members of The Ohio State leadership studies (1957) to measure managers? perceived leadership behaviors from viewpoint of their own subordinates. Surveys applied 188 employees working in various duties and departments of a public organization located in Malatya.The data set and demographic information obtained from both scales were examined by the means of varied statistic methods. The results revealed positive and linear relationship between employees? organizational commitments as a dependent variable and relations-oriented or task-oriented leadership behaviors of managers as independent variables. When both leader behaviors handled together, it?s found that relations-oriented behavior is relatively more effective on employee commitment.