Organizational commitment (OC) is the psychological link betrveen employees and their organizations that reduces the likelihood that ernployees rvill voluntarily leave. OC is an important dimension of organization effectiveness; it has been shown to impact productivity, work performance. and rurnover. It is instructive to recognize how a leader\u27s behavior impacts the overall stress and the organizational commitment of employees. Fifty-five administrators at a private college in the Midwest completed a 56-question electlonic survey to explore the relationship arnong leaders\u27 behavioral scores for (1a) structure-initiation and (1b) consideration as assigned by their employees and the (2) self-reported organizational commitment levels of those employees. The hypothesis that OC was highest among employees who perceived that their supervisors exhibited higher-than-average structure-initiation and consideration behaviors was supported (Spearman\u27s rho 0.416, p = .002). However, the strongest correlation was again present between leader Consideration behaviors and OC (Spearman\u27s rho 0.519. p \u3c 001)
