Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Journal of Global Strategic Management, cilt.14, sa.1, ss.55-68, 2020 (Hakemli Dergi)
In today's challenging competitive environment, companies aiming to precede have to find, employ and
retain qualified employees, who are the main actors in this competition. This can only be possible by making
a sense of commitment in the workforce and empowering this sense among the staff. Undoubtedly, the most
important task in establishing and strengthening the commitment falls to the internal leaders of the
organization; because the leadership styles and behaviors exhibited by the intra-organizational leaders are
crucial in the formation of the employees’ commitment to the organization that they work for. Therefore, in
this study it is aimed to investigate the effects of transformational leadership and laissez-faire leadership
on organizational commitment types. The sample of the study includes employees working in temporary
staff at an important public hospital in Istanbul. As the data collection tool, survey forms prepared on a 5-
point Likert scale were used. In order to measure the transformational leadership and laissez-faire
leadership types, the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) developed by Avolio, Bass and Jung
(1999) was used whereas to measure the organizational commitment types, the scale developed by Allen
and Meyer (1990) was used. The organizational commitment scale consists of three dimensions:
continuance commitment, affective commitment and normative commitment. Structural equation modelling
was used as the research method. The data was evaluated by statistical tests using IBM SPSS and AMOS
programs, and reliable and valid results were achieved. As a result of the analyses performed, it was found
that transformational leadership has a highly meaningful and positive effect on all three dimensions of
organizational commitment. On the other hand, while laissez-faire leadership has a meaningful and
positive effect on continuance commitment and normative commitment, it has no significant impact on
affective commitment.
Keywords: Transformational Leadership, Laissez-faire Leadership, Organizational Commitment, Health
Workers