Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to examine how organisational culture
and leadership styles can affect employee commitment in the public
organisations using Ghana Prison Service (GPS), Central Region as a case
study. The study adopted the descriptive survey design. The sample size for
the study was 112, made up of 34 junior officers, 22 senior officers, and 56
non-commission officers of the GPS. The stratified sampling technique that
makes use of the lottery method of simple random sampling was used to select
the respondents. Questionnaire was the sole data collection instrument used
with a reliability coefficient of 0.87. Both descriptive and inferential statistics
were used to analyse the data. The findings of the study revealed that
transformational leadership has been observed to be practiced at GPS, and that
leadership style and organisational culture have influence on employees’
commitment to the GPS. The study indicated and concludes that the more
employees of the GPS perceive the various leadership styles adopted by their
immediate supervisors positively the more they become committed to the
organisation. Furthermore, leadership style played a major role in nurturing
the appropriate organisational culture which helped to improve the
implementation of specific government reforms. Also, organisational culture
and leadership style of officers of GPS in the Central Region of Ghana only
predict employees’ commitment to the service when officers or employees of
the organisation are satisfied with their job. The study recommends that
management officers of the GPS should have the right person to do the right
job and lead employees with appropriate and meaningful leadership style to
increase their satisfaction with the job.
