• Mr. ASFAW GELAW NEFA
• 2. Dr. PECHETTY SVR BABU

The organization’s leadership style plays a critical part in mobilizing, motivating and focusing the employees in achieving its tasks. The commitment and maximum utilization of an organization’s human resource among others accelerates the achievement of the organizations’ vision, missions, goals, and values. This study aimed at investigating the relationship between academic leaders’ leadership styles and teachers’ organizational commitment at Bule Hora University. A correlation research design was employed. Out of 705 target population of teachers, 255 teachers and 67 academic leaders, totally 322 respondents were selected using simple random and availability sampling techniques respectively. Multi-Factor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) and Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ) were adapted for data gathering instruments. Pilot Study was conducted to check the internal consistency of the items using Cronbach Alpha. Data were collected from academic leaders (deans and department heads) and teachers of Bule Hora University. The participants completed the Bass and Avolio (2000) Multifactor Leadership Scale and Allen and Meyer (1996) Organizational Commitment Scale, which considered leadership styles as comprising of transformational and transactional leadership. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were employed to answer the basic questions. Then data were processed using a computer program such as SPSS v.20 and STATA software, and analyzed by descriptive statistics, Pearson's product-moment correlation (r) and multiple regressions. The descriptive analysis results revealed that the practice of both transformational and transactional leadership styles was low while continuance commitment was the dominant component of teachers’ organizational commitment observed in the university. The correlation analysis further revealed that there was a strong, positive and significant relationship between transformational and transactional leadership behaviors of leaders with all dimensions of organizational commitment. Moreover, the regression analysis indicated that transactional leadership style predicts more teachers’ organizational commitment. It was concluded that it would be difficult to achieve the overall goals of the university with the existing leadership style being used and teachers’ commitment in the university. Thus, the study suggested different approaches to improve the existing leadership skills and teachers’ organizational commitment in the university under study. Finally, for university leaders, in order to function in the most effective way, it is recommended that academic leaders must avail themselves to improve organizational commitment of teachers. To do this, firstly, emphasis should be given on regular leadership training for department heads and college deans within the university on how to make use of different leadership styles to enhance teachers' commitment.

Leadership style, Organizational commitment, Transformational, Transactional, Affective, Continuance and Normative Commitment

"ACADEMIC LEADERS’ LEADERSHIP STYLES AND TEACHERS’ ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT AT BULE HORA UNIVERSITY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 6, page no.h101-h128, June-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2406711.pdf

"ACADEMIC LEADERS’ LEADERSHIP STYLES AND TEACHERS’ ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT AT BULE HORA UNIVERSITY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 6, page no. pph101-h128, June-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2406711.pdf