Survey on relationship between managers' leadership styles with organizational commitment of Kerman Melat Bank staffs (Kerman is a city in Iran)

This study is concerned with the relationship between managers leadership styles and organizational commitment of Kerman Melat Bank staffs in 2006.Statistical populations were about 262 staffs at 31 branches of Melat Bank of whose 158 people were selected by relative clustered sampling method. In order to gather data, two questionnaires of leadership style and organizational commitment of staffs were used. Questionnaires validities of the leadership and organizational commitment were 0.94 and 0.93, respectively. Questionnaires reliabilities of the leadership and organizational commitment were determined 0.72 and 0.77, respectively. Analysis of collected data was done by using of spearman coefficient, Kendal, Mann- w and Kruscal - Walis tests. Tables of frequency distributions and box charts were also used. After analyzing the data, the following results were obtained. Transformational leadership style has been made more organizational commitment than interactive leadership style in staffs There is relationship between managers' leadership style and emotional commitment of staffs. There is a relationship between managers' leadership style and duty commitment of staffs. There is a relationship between managers' leadership style and continuous commitment of staffs.