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This study aims to determine the mediator effect of alienation between its antecedents and organizational commitment. The data obtained from 399 employees, who work in Ankara, and analysed with quantitative research methods. By analyzing the data, a strong positive relationship has been found between role ambiguity and organizational alienation according to the results of the analysis conducted to determine the relationship between those variables. Besides, democratic leadership behaviors have a significant effect on both organizational alienation and organizational commitment. Additionally, organizational alienation has a partial mediating effect in the relationship between democratic leadership, which is one of the antecedents of alienation, and organizational commitment. Similarly, there is the partial mediation effect of organizational alienation in the relationship between role uncertainty and organizational commitment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Strategic ambiguity is considered as a communication tactic involving ambiguous messages that trigger to emergence of different opinions and interpretations. The purpose of this study is to evaluate strategic ambiguity as a communication tactic within the dynamics of the public sector. As a result of the stakeholder diversity of organizations operating in the public sector is greater than those operating in the private sector, necessity to balance multiple competing interests of stakeholders can be met by the use of strategic ambiguity as a communication tactic. On the other hand, public sector dynamics such as impartiality, equality, accountability, transparency cause strategic ambiguity to be questioned as a communication tactic. This study contributes to the literature by assessing strategic ambiguity among these dilemmas. The fact that it has not been examined in the national literature, especially in relation to public sector, has triggered to emergence of new research questions for future studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]