An Analysis of Effects of Transformational Leadership Perceptions of Employees on Organizational Commitment

Abstract

In this paper, the relationship between employee’s transformational leadership perceptions and organizational commitment has been analyzed. The research made on 144 white-collar employees from different departments of one service company. Survey was used for data collection. Data obtained were analyzed through “paired-samples t test”, “independent-samples t test”, “correlation analysis”, “regression analysis”, and “one-way ANOVA”. The results show that one of the transformational leadership’ component which is inspirational motivation has significant effects on organizational commitment and its components - affective commitment, continuance commitment and normative commitment. Lastly, employee’s transformational leadership perceptions and their organizational commitments have been examined by demographics of employees.