Canonical Analysis of Perceived Leadership Styles and Employees' Commitment in Nigeria

This paper examines the relationship between leadership styles (transformational, transactional and lassiez-faire leadership) and employees' commitment and also identify the specific leadership styles sub-variables that relate more to the employees' commitment in Lagos State Civil Service Commission of Nigeria. The paper employed a cross-sectional survey research design. All current employees of the organisation were the population of the study, while the sample for this study included employees who were selected through simple random sampling technique. The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) and Organisational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ) developed by Bass and Avolio (2004) and Meyer and Allen (1997) respectively were used to collect data. Data obtained from the organisation were analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 22.0 version. The results were the outcome of the analysis of the data obtained from respondents. The significance level was considered when p