THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT AND LEADERSHIP PERCEPTION OF PERSONNEL IN PROFESSIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT

Organizational commitment and leadership issues based on roots in private institutions have gained importance in public service organizations as well as new public administration and management concepts. At the head of these are concepts of organizational commitment and leadership perception. In this research, it is aimed to investigate the relationship between gendarmerie personnel’s organizational commitment and leadership perception levels. In this survey, a survey was conducted on n = 386 gendarmerie personnel in charge of Tunceli Gendarmerie Command between January and May 2018. According to the findings of the research, dimensions of organizational commitment and leadership perception scores did not show a statistically significant difference according to the demographic characteristics of the participants (p> 0.05). When the results of correlation analysis were examined, there was no statistically significant relationship between leadership and organizational commitment (p> 0.05)