MODELLING AFFECTIVE COMMITMENT IN RELATION TO TRANSFORMATIONAL, TRANSACTIONAL AND PASSIVE AVOIDANT LEADERSHIP STYLES USING ORDINAL REGRESSION MODEL

Abstract

This empirical study was conducted on fifty organized retail companies, having their stores and offices in Lucknow, India to assess the effect of Transformational, Transactional and Passive Avoidant leadership styles on the employee Affective Commitment. Five hundred employees including store owners, supervisors and managers and aisle staff responses were measured on Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire Form 5X and on a part of Organizational Commitment Questionnaire. IBM SPSS 20, Ordinal Regression model with probit link function was used for statistical analysis.

The statistical analysis predicts a strong positive relationship between Transformational leadership style and Affective Commitment followed by Passive avoidant leadership closely followed by transactional leadership style.