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Organizational commitment is posited to be influenced by organizations' leadership styles. This is due to leadership provides guidance and influence the organizations' members to move towards attaining the collective objectives. Within the context of a high compliance organizations such as the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM, leadership style is expected to impose stronger influence on the members' work behaviors including the organizational commitment. Thus, this study aims to analyse the effect of transformational and transactional leadership styles on the organizational commitment of the lower rank police officers in the PDRM. The study employs quantitative research design which based on the survey technique. Questionnaires are distributed to 226 respondents among the lower rank police officers who are involved in the crime prevention and enforcement task in the Police Headquarters in one of the districts in Selangor. The study sample has been selected through the random sampling technique and consist of members from the Sub Inspector, Sargent Major, Sargent, Corporal, Lans Corporal and Constable ranks. The Multiple Regression analysis is used to test the influence between variables in the study framework. The study findings show a significant relationship between the transformation and transactional leadership style with the members' organizational commitment. As a result, transformational and transactional leadership styles are essential leadership styles that have influence on the lower rank police officers' organizational commitment. The study result further indicates transformational leadership styles has more positive influence and dominance in contributing to higher level of organizational commitment compared to the transactional leadership style. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The competitive nature of work now requires employees to provide excellent service and practice organizational citizenship behavior. Therefore, the objectives of this study are to examine the relationship between transformational leadership, organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior; test the influence of transformational leadership towards orgnizational commitment; test the influence of transformational leadership towards organizational citizenship behavior, test the influence of organizational commitment towards organizational citizenship behavior; and examine the role of organizational commitment as mediator in the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational citizenship behavior. The study employs a survey design by distributing questionnaires to respondents. A total of 143 respondents from Ministry of Finance Malaysia were selected using random sampling. Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire was used to measure transformational leadership practices, Affective, Normative, and Continuance Commitment Scale was used to measure organizational commitment and Organizational Citizenship Behavior Scale was used to measure organizational citizenship behavior. The data collected were analyzed using Pearson correlation and linear regression. The results showed that there were significant relationships between transformational leadership, organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior. Transformational leadership predicted significantly towards organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior. Results also showed that organizational commitment mediated the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational citizenship behavior. The findings of this study emphasized the importance of transformational leadership among leaders and organizational commitment in order to increase organizational citizenship behavior among employees. When this is achieved, individuals can give the best contribution towards the organization which consequently ensures organizational effectiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Leadership style is one of the attributes that always garners researchers' attention. A leader's character is a significant factor that contributes to organizations' success of failure. This research focuses on spiritual leadership style that gains very little attention from researchers, transformational and transactional leadership styles that are practiced by political leaders and the styles' impacts towards organizational commitment and intention to stay among parties' appointed committee members. Spiritual leadership styles that have not get much attention from researchers are the main focus of this study. Specifically, this research also examines the roles of affective and normative commitment as the mediating factors to the relationship of spiritual, transformational and transactional leadership styles and the intention to stay with an institution. This research was embarked on UMNO Divisions' and PAS Zones' committee members in Selangor. Out of 1,290 distributed questionnaires, 357 were analyzed. Hypothesis testing was done via Sobel and multiple regression analyses. The results reveal that all styles have significant roles in enhancing the committee members' affective and normative commitment towards their organizations. The leadership style also has a positive relationship with the intention to stay. The mediating effect analysis discovers that normative commitment acts as a mediator to the relationship of spiritual, transformational and transactional leadership styles and the intention to stay. These findings contribute to the theoretical and managerial aspects especially that relate to spiritual leadership style. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]