A thesis submitted as a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Banking and Finance (MBF)

This study focused on relationship between leadership styles & organizational commitment to Myanmar Citizens Bank (MCB). The objectives of the study and learned the employee commitments (affective, continuance, and normative commitment) in MCB Bank. It is known that an individual that have a good in leadership skill can able to change the entire organizational system within the organization. The purpose of this research is to examine or evaluate the effectiveness of leadership style towards the organizational commitment in the banking industry area at MCB Bank. In this research, independent variables such as transactional, transformational, servant and participative leadership are being discussed to determine their correlation or significant relationship with organizational commitment. There a total of 120 sets of questionnaire had been distributed to banking employees in MCB Bank and total number of 80 sets had been collected. Based from the findings, all independent variable have significant relationship (transformational, transactional, servant and participative) or correlation with dependent variable (organizational commitment). Furthermore, if studies are to focus on the banking industry, they can emphasize on special banking employees such as top management position who have experience is leading in the banking industry. The most employees, their managers were found which transformational leadership style, transactional leadership style, and participative leadership style are least dominant, servant leadership style which is moderate dominant, This study examined the leadership styles and organizational commitment in MCB Bank which was found that the servant leadership style are most existing leadership style alternative comparing other leadership style. Therefore, the dominant leadership style of MCB bank is the servant leadership style ones