| Abstract: | A leader is defined as a person with the responsibility to influence one or more followers and
directing them to achieve a set objective. While doing so, the leader has to be aware of the
strength of each of his or her follower and identify the areas to be improved (Bruce et al., 2006).
Leadership is creating and maintaining a sense of vision, culture and interpersonal
relationships. Employee’s organization commitment is an important factor for the sustainable
and effective growth of the institution. The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of
leadership style (transformational, transaction and laissez-faire) on employee organizational
commitment (affective, normative and continuous) on private higer educational institution in
case of admas university. The literature provided discusses the leadership style and
organizational commitment. Information was gathered from sample of 211 respondents (10 high
level managment 26 middle level managment and 175 employees) These items are rated using a
3 scale. Leadership style was identified as the independent variable and organizational
commitment as the dependent variable. The findings result of the study employees perception
about the transformational and transactional leadership style have strong and significant,
positive correlation with affective, normative and continuance commitment. But, no statistically
significant correlation between laissez-faire leadership style with affective, normative and
continuance commitment. The result of the finding indicates as there is a need for better
leadership and management to realize employee commitment as well as upgrading of skills (staff
career) and gearing towards results orientation and efficiency. overall the institution’s leaders
should improve the level of employees’ commitment through actually practicing effective type of
leadership style and creating conducive environment to employees. |
