Effects of the Leadership Styles on the Organisational Commitment, Job Satisfaction, and Intention to Leave: A Research on Turkish Prisons and Detention Houses Cover Image

Yönetici Liderlik Yaklaşımının Çalışanın Örgütsel Bağlılığı, İş Tatmini ve İşten Ayrılma Niyeti Üzerine Etkisi: Türkiye’deki Ceza İnfaz Kurumlarında Bir Uygulama
Effects of the Leadership Styles on the Organisational Commitment, Job Satisfaction, and Intention to Leave: A Research on Turkish Prisons and Detention Houses

Author(s): Ceren Güven Güres, Alptekin Sökmen
Subject(s): Security and defense, Organizational Psychology, Management and complex organizations, Human Resources in Economy
Published by: İşletme Araştırmaları Dergisi
Keywords: Participatory leadership; directive leadership; organizational commitment; job satisfaction; intention to leave; prison and detention centers;

Summary/Abstract: This research was conducted to express the relationship between the leadership styles on the organizational commitment, job satisfaction, intention to leave of the first and second grade managers, admin officers, chief prison officers and prison officers who work in different types of prison and detention centers in Ankara, İstanbul, İzmir, Antalya, Trabzon, İzmir and Antalya. To ensure the validity and reliability of the scales, surveys were conducted to 50 people from Erzurum closed prison and detention center. Results obtained from Erzurum were also subjected to verifiable tests. After the final approval of Ministry of Justice, all surveys have been conducted to 3.026 participants between 12.05.2014 – 30.08. 2014. As a result of the research, it has been proved that the participants leadership perceptions have shown differences on job satisfaction, organizational commitment and intention to leave as per their individual characteristics vary. It was also approved that the participants leadership perceptions have affects on their job satisfaction, organizational commitment and intention to leave. It was found that there is a meaningful relation between the organizational commitment and the job satisfaction of the participants like as the relation between the organizational commitment and their intention to leave.

  • Issue Year: 7/2015
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 59-74
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Turkish