Etkileri dönüşümcü liderlik organizasyonel taahhüt hakkında: Irak'tan bir çalışma

Organizational commitment influences employees' attitudes and performance in a way that contributes to the achievement of business goals. Many studies have proven the positive effects of transformational leadership in achieving organizational commitment. Governmental organizations in Iraq in general, including the University of Misan, suffer from weak organizational commitment in its various dimensions, emotional, normative, and continuity. In the context of searching for possible solutions to activate job commitment, the researcher reached the importance of conducting a study on transformational leadership and the impact of adopting this type of leadership style in enhancing organizational commitment. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the effect of transformational leadership (idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, individual consideration) on organizational commitment. The quantitative approach was adopted in this study by applying a questionnaire tool to collect data from members of the study sample. The employees of the University of Misan in Iraq were identified as the study population, and a random sampling method is used to select the sample members. The number of individuals participating in the study was 265 participants. Use statistical analysis software (SPSS 26) to analyze the acquired data, conduct correlational analyzes to discover relationships between study variables, and conduct multiple linear regression analyzes to examine the effect of the independent variables on the dependent variable. The study found that there is a positive, statistically significant correlation between transformational leadership in its dimensions and organizational commitment. It also found that there is a positive impact of transformational leadership (idealized influence, intellectual stimulation, individual consideration, and inspirational motivation) on emotional commitment, continuing commitment, and normative commitment. These results indicate the importance of following the transformational leadership style in universities and educational institutions in Iraq as a tool to raise the level of organizational commitment among employees. It also recommends conducting many future research in other institutions and countries in order to generalize the results reached by the researcher.