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Background of Study: Organizational commitment is important for hotel businesses that is one of the labor intensive businesses. Leadership style, organizational climate, payments, job specifications, organizational culture are some of the factors that influence organizational commitment. A specially, there are specific impacts of leadership styles on employees’ commitment in hotel businesses. The success of the hotel businesses that produce emotional products and services for people, is dependent on efficiency and quality of employees. The effect of leader on employees, make leadership most important factor that effect organizational commitment.Purpose of Study: This study investigated to how various leadership behaviors autocratic, participative, relationship-oriented, visionary, coaching leadership behaviors affect the level of commitment.Sources of Data: Two group of questionnaires will be used for clarify leadership style and job satisfaction level in research. The data collected from 236 employees who work different departments of five star hotels in Marmaris. We use Goleman’s Leadership Styles for build up leadership behavior scale. Also we use Hackman and Oldham’s Job Characteristics for build up organizational commitment scale.Results and Finding: According the findings, the dominant leadership behaviors of managers in Marmaris were participative, relationship-oriented, visionary and coaching leadership behavior. Furthermore, while participative, relationshiporiented, visionary and coaching leadership behaviors have high correlation with commitment, an autocratic leadership behavior have no correlation or some low negative correlations with this variables. Also The Duration of working in hotel is important variable that effect level of commitment and perceived relationshiporiented and coaching leadership styles

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