Analysis of the Relationship between Leadership Styles and Affective Organizational Commitment

This research was conducted to address leadership styles and affective organizational commitment and what types of leadership styles that contribute the most to affective organizational commitment within SMEs in Johor retail sector commitment. Quantitative was used for conducting this research and t...

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Main Authors: Choi Long, Lim Yong, Tan Chuen
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Language:English
Published: Mashhad: Behzad Hassannezhad Kashani 2016-10-01
Series:International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
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Online Access:https://www.ijmae.com/article_115522_ceceb396f20ba6e9024543bbea79ab3f.pdf
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Lim Yong
Tan Chuen
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Tan Chuen
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description This research was conducted to address leadership styles and affective organizational commitment and what types of leadership styles that contribute the most to affective organizational commitment within SMEs in Johor retail sector commitment. Quantitative was used for conducting this research and the questionnaire was distributed to the person in charge in order to distribute to his colleagues. The prepared questionnaire which covered dimensions of transformational leadership style and transactional leadership style, and affective organizational commitment was adapted from Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire and other research. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) was used for analysing data. Pearson Correlation Analysis will be used to measure the relationship in linear correlation between two numerical data variables, Regression and Multiple Regression analysis was used to test single or multiple independent variables and one dependent variable. Inspirational motivation has a significant and strong positive relationship with affective organizational commitment. The finding showed that leadership styles have a very strong relationship with affective organizational commitment. By further dividing into two different leadership styles, the transformational leadership style has a significant and strong positive relationship with affective organizational commitment while the transactional leadership style has a significant and weak positive relationship with affective organizational commitment. Even both leadership styles have contributed to the affective organizational commitment, the transformational leadership style contributes the most to the affective organizational commitment followed by transactional leadership style.
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spelling doaj.art-0854bb4a6a344eb68b62999441e1f79c2023-09-07T21:56:39ZengMashhad: Behzad Hassannezhad KashaniInternational Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics2383-21262016-10-01310572598115522Analysis of the Relationship between Leadership Styles and Affective Organizational CommitmentChoi Long0Lim Yong1Tan Chuen2Raffles University Iskandar, Johor Bahru, Johor, MalaysiaFaculty of Business, Raffles University Iskandar, MalaysiaRaffles University Iskandar, Johor Bahru, Johor, MalaysiaThis research was conducted to address leadership styles and affective organizational commitment and what types of leadership styles that contribute the most to affective organizational commitment within SMEs in Johor retail sector commitment. Quantitative was used for conducting this research and the questionnaire was distributed to the person in charge in order to distribute to his colleagues. The prepared questionnaire which covered dimensions of transformational leadership style and transactional leadership style, and affective organizational commitment was adapted from Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire and other research. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) was used for analysing data. Pearson Correlation Analysis will be used to measure the relationship in linear correlation between two numerical data variables, Regression and Multiple Regression analysis was used to test single or multiple independent variables and one dependent variable. Inspirational motivation has a significant and strong positive relationship with affective organizational commitment. The finding showed that leadership styles have a very strong relationship with affective organizational commitment. By further dividing into two different leadership styles, the transformational leadership style has a significant and strong positive relationship with affective organizational commitment while the transactional leadership style has a significant and weak positive relationship with affective organizational commitment. Even both leadership styles have contributed to the affective organizational commitment, the transformational leadership style contributes the most to the affective organizational commitment followed by transactional leadership style.https://www.ijmae.com/article_115522_ceceb396f20ba6e9024543bbea79ab3f.pdfaffective commitmenttransformational leadershiptransactional leadershipregressionsmall medium enterprises
spellingShingle Choi Long
Lim Yong
Tan Chuen
Analysis of the Relationship between Leadership Styles and Affective Organizational Commitment
International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
affective commitment
transformational leadership
transactional leadership
regression
small medium enterprises
title Analysis of the Relationship between Leadership Styles and Affective Organizational Commitment
title_full Analysis of the Relationship between Leadership Styles and Affective Organizational Commitment
title_fullStr Analysis of the Relationship between Leadership Styles and Affective Organizational Commitment
title_full_unstemmed Analysis of the Relationship between Leadership Styles and Affective Organizational Commitment
title_short Analysis of the Relationship between Leadership Styles and Affective Organizational Commitment
title_sort analysis of the relationship between leadership styles and affective organizational commitment
topic affective commitment
transformational leadership
transactional leadership
regression
small medium enterprises
url https://www.ijmae.com/article_115522_ceceb396f20ba6e9024543bbea79ab3f.pdf
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