The proposed research aims to determine the relationship between dean´sleadership and organizational commitment among faculty at universities in Colombia. A quantitative research design will guide the study to determine therelationship among leadership style of deans and organizational commitment. The multifactor leadership questionnaire (MLQ) developed by Bass in 1985 andthe organizational commitment questionnaire (OCQ) developed by Meyer andAllen in 1999 will be the instruments administered to collect the data and toexplain the relationship among the proposed variables. The study sample includes part-time and full-time faculty of the National University of Colombia, Sergio Arboleda University and CESA University located in the city of Bogotá,Colombia.