The present study attempts to investigate the most preferred leadership behaviors among the transformational and transactional leadership styles and its impact on Employees' organizational commitment in BHEL. For this study 158 sample respondents had been drawn out from among the Senior Engineers and the Trainee Engineers group. Statistical tools like One-Way ANOVA, Correlation analysis and Regression analysis were used to find out whether there was any significant difference in the leadership styles based on the position and pay and to find out the degree of association between preferred leadership styles and organizational commitment. The results of the study concluded that while the positional identity of the respondent had some significant impact on leadership style perception and organizational commitment, salary did not seem to make a difference from among the sample respondents.
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