Author(s)

Ali Çağlar Gulluce^1*, Erdoğan Kaygin², Sultan Bakadur Kafadar², Metin Atay³

¹Open Education Faculty, Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey.
²Faculty of Economics, Kars Kafkas University, Kars, Turkey.
³Vocational School of Health Services, Kars Kafkas University, Kars, Turkey.

The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational commitment. To this end, a theoretical framework regarding transformational leadership and organizational commitment was created and then an application was performed on bank employees in Kars. The results revealed relations between transformational leadership and organizational commitment. Furthermore, results regarding awareness point out an awareness in continuance commitment, which is one of the sub-dimensions of organizational commitment, in terms of whether management task exists or not.

Leadership, Transformational Leadership, Organizational Commitment

Gulluce, A. , Kaygin, E. , Kafadar, S. and Atay, M. (2016) The Relationship between Transformational Leadership and Organizational Commitment: A Study on the Bank Employees. Journal of Service Science and Management, 9, 263-275. doi: 10.4236/jssm.2016.93033.