The Impact of Management Styles on Employee Commitment

Abstract

This study examines the extent to which management styles relate with commitment of employees at the University of Port Harcourt teaching hospital. The population includes both employees and interns from the university teaching hospital. Autocratic and democratic styles of leadership were adopted as dimensions of leadership styles while affective and normative commitment were adopted as the measures for employee commitment. The hypotheses were tested using spearman rank order correlation and our findings reveals that a significant relationship exists between autocratic leadership and measures of commitment as well as democratic leadership and measures of commitment. The study further recommends that both styles are still relevant in today’s organization and should not be neglected.