Leadership Style and Organizational Culture In Affecting Employee Performance Of Ministry of Religion Institution of Aceh Province : Does Work Motivation Mediate?
Author: Nurul Wahyuni, Abdul Rahman Lubis, and Ridwan Nurdin, Indonesia
Abstract: This research aimed to analyze the effect of leadership style and organizational culture on employee performance both directly and indirectly through work motivation. The object was the Ministry of Religion Institution of Aceh Province, as a government institution that has a bureaucratic character in completing its work. The sampling technique used was census with the size of respondents as many 164 employees, while the data analyzed through the Structural Equation Model technique. The results showed leadership style and organizational culture had a significant effect on work motivation; work motivation had a significant effect on employee performance; leadership style and organizational culture directly had a significant effect on employee performance, but indirectly leadership style and organizational culture did not significantly affect employee performance through work motivation. An interesting issue lies in work motivation that was not appropriate as a mediator in the model, related to the object of research which is a government organization that has a bureaucratic character. The further researchers can add more research questions like what kind of leadership style or organization culture can affect employee performance in government institution as a bureaucratic type organization, or even testing other variables that can be their mediators to effect employee performance. Practically, this research model can be a reference for practitioners especially they are in the Ministry of Religion Institution of Aceh Province. They can reset their strategies and policies to be more focused in increasing employee performance based on improving leadership style, organizational culture, and work motivation.