| The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between leadership frames and organizational commitment. To examine this relationship, two instruments were used, one that measured leadership orientation (Bolman and Deal's (1991) Leadership Orientation Instrument), and one that investigated organizational commitment (Mowday, Steers, and Porter's (1979) Organizational Commitment Questionnaire). The primary research question guiding the investigation was: “What is the relationship between the followers' organizational commitment and the followers' perception of their leader's frame, controlling for the age, gender, and tenure of the follower?”; The instruments, combined with a questionnaire of select demographic questions, were sent to members of the sales and marketing organization of a multi-national telecommunications company. Responses from these instruments were received from 78 sales and marketing personnel. Descriptive statistics and multiple-correlation and regression methods were used to analyze the data with respect to the research questions of this study. The results indicate a statistical significance between the four leadership frames and organizational commitment. Further, results indicate that supervisors rated in this study most frequently used the structural frame (mean score, 30.48). Respondents also reported the symbolic frame to be the least used of the four frames (mean score, 27.62). |
