Relationship Between Perceived Leadership Styles And Commitment

Leadership is an essential function of management that supports the organization to optimize efficiency and achieve set objectives.The ability to influence a shared goal from the leader to the follower is the cornerstone of employee commitment to the organization.This paper aims to examine the relationship between leadership styles(Transformation and Transactional)and employee commitment in Somalia private healthcare context.To achieve this objective this study used two separate instruments,namely the multifactor leadership questionnaire(MLQ)and organizational commitment questionnaire(OCQ),to measure leadership styles and employees' organizational commitment respectively.In order to analyze this relationship multiple regression,Pearson correlation matrix,and descriptive statistics were used.The study results revealed a positive and significant relationship between leadership styles and employee commitment.Furthermore,the result indicated that transformational leadership had a stronger influence on employee commitment than transactional leadership.Although,the findings indicated that,the transformational leadership had a stronger influence on employee commitment than transactional leadership,employee perceived their leaders as not having the "ideal" levels of transformational leadership behaviors.The result further indicated that transformational leadership had a positive and significant influence on affective and continuance commitment,but no significant relationship with normative commitment.The results on transactional leadership indicated a positive and significant relationship on normative commitment,but no significant effect on both affective and continuance commitment.This research provides recommendations for the Somalia private healthcare sectors,and academic researchers for optimal implementation of the transformational leadership style to increase employees' work performance and organizational commitment.This is because transformational leadership styles are more effective in achieving significantly higher commitment levels than transactional leaders,and has a major influence on the decisions of employees about want to,need to or ought to stay in the current organization.