LEADERSHIP STYLE AND ITS RELATION TO EMPLOYEE
ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationships between leadership style and organisational
commitment, job satisfaction, job involvement and organisational citizenship behaviour and whether these
relationships were stronger for transformational than for transactional leaders. A sample of 52 leaders and 276 raters
from a world class engineering company participated. The results of a canonical correlation analysis using the rater
data indicated that the most prominent relationship was that between transactional leadership and affective
commitment. Furthermore, transformational and transactional leadership did not correlate significantly with the
constructs of job involvement and job satisfaction.
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