The organization success and failures depend on the employees and the leaders of that organization. With that point of view employee commitment and leadership styles are taken into the consideration by the researchers. In aligning with that, this study investigates the impact of leadership styles on employee commitment of public sector organizations in Polonnaruwa district. The research included staff officers from the public sector in Polonnaruwa district. For data collection, the researcher used standard questionnaire. In order to measure the leadership style and employee commitment 02 different standard questionnaire used by the researcher and they are namely, multifactor leadership questionnaire (MLQ) and employee commitment questionnaire (ECQ). The findings of the study revealed that both transformational leadership style and transactional leadership style have significant positive relationship with employee commitment with r = 0.712 and r = 0.670, respectively. The result of multiple regression analysis revealed that the adjusted R square value for leadership style and employee commitment is 0.593. It means around 60% of the variance on employee commitment is explained by leadership styles. The implication of the study was that leadership styles are important in influencing employee commitment. Organizations should pay attention to these and incorporate proper leadership styles as one of the strategies to ensure the achievement of employee commitment.
Ranasinghe et al. (Thu,) studied this question.