Leadership styles and organizational commitment: literature review
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between Bass's (1985) leadership dimensions (transformational, transactional, and laissez faire) and several outcome variables (employee extra effort, employee satisfaction with leader, leadership effectiveness) and organizational commitment. Design/methodology/approach This is a systematic literature review. Findings This review briefly discusses the conceptual framework and the Full Range Leadership Model (Bass, 1985) which include transformational leadership, transactional leadership, and laissez faire leadership. Also discussed in this section were the abilities and the characteristics of transformational leaders. The leadership section was concluded with discussion on previous researches on transformational leadership. This review also provides a literature review on organizational commitment. Originality/value Described in this paper are the various definitions of organizational commitment and the three component model of commi.