Leadership Style and Work Motivation on Job Satisfaction and Performance of State Civil Servants in Jeneponto Regency

Abstract

The aims of this research are (1) to examine and analyze whether leadership style and motivation directly influence job satisfaction; (2) to test and analyze whether leadership style and work motivation have a direct effect on the performance of the state civil apparatus; and (3) to test and analyze whether leadership style and work motivation have an indirect effect on performance through job satisfaction of the State Civil Apparatus. This research was conducted on ASN within the scope of the Regional Apparatus Organization (OPD) in Jeneponto Regency. The sample is the State Civil Apparatus, with a total sample of 294 people. The data analysis technique used is the SEM analysis technique with the AMOS program. The results of this study indicate that (1) leadership style and work motivation have a positive and significant effect on ASN job satisfaction. (2) Leadership style has no significant positive effect on ASN performance, while work motivation and job satisfaction have a positive and significant effect on ASN performance. (3) Leadership style and work motivation indirectly positively and significantly affect performance through ASN job satisfaction. The findings of this study are that the application of a better leadership style and higher work motivation will be able to increase job satisfaction and ASN performance in Jeneponto Regency, although the leadership style's influence on ASN performance is not strong enough or not significant, because each change of top leadership, there will always be policy changes automatically so that the employees have not felt the effects of the leadership style. Besides that, indirectly, job satisfaction can be a good mediation in seeing its role in the relationship between leadership style and work motivation in improving ASN performance in Jeneponto Regency.

Keywords: Leadership Style; Work Motivation; Job Satisfaction; Employee Performance.