Organizational culture, leadership styles and organizational commitment in Turkish logistics industry

Abstract

According to the literature, ensuring continuous and desirable work outcomes of employees have strong relations with their commitment to their organizations. Those employees who have commitment to their organization are addicted to the organization's objectives and organization itself when they adopt their organizational culture. Based on empirical evidences in the literature, also leadership is an important component in the organizational commitment process. Moreover, leadership is crucial for the organizational effectiveness, and the development and the changes of organizational culture. Thus the aim of this study is to explore the effects of organizational culture and leadership styles on employees' commitment. To reach this aim a questionnaire survey is performed and data is collected from 344 employees of 37 logistics firm which operating in Marmara Region of Turkey have been used to solve the research questions. The database analyzed by SPSS v.15 statistical program using multivariate data analyses techniques through developed hypothesis. According to the findings of this research supported the positive effects of leadership and organizational culture on the organizational commitment in context of logistics industry.