The Moderating Role of Locus of Control on Leadership Style and Organizational Commitment

Thinkers of management regard the methods of managing and leadership of an organization from viewpoint of treating with colleagues and the manager’s attitude to organization in staffs’ reactions as an important factor. They believe these reactions as the final motivation for a better function or the loss of stimulation in staffs. Hence this is very important for leaders to try to have a good understanding of their subordinates’ locus of control in order to know motivation and the stimuli. In this direction, different researches have studied the effect of leadership style and locus of control on the organizational commitment separately, but researchers have not examined directly the relationship between leadership style and organizational commitment by regarding the staffs’ locus of control as a moderating variant yet. For this purpose, a sample size of 92 managers and staffs of Export Guarantee Fund of Iran were selected by simple random sampling method. The results indicatethat the proposed model is a good fit and staffs’ locus of control explained the effects of leadership style of managers on organizational commitment as a moderating role.