Transformational Leadership and Motivation on Performance Mediated by Discipline at Probolinggo Education Department
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Managing human resources effectively is a daily challenge for government offices to provide good public services. This study aims to analyze how transformational leadership and work motivation affect employee performance, while testing work discipline as a mediating variable. We conducted this research at the Department of Education and Culture of Probolinggo City. We collected primary data by distributing printed questionnaires to all sixty-eight active employees. We analyzed the responses using a quantitative approach with structural equation modeling. Our analysis shows that transformational leadership and work motivation both have a positive and significant direct effect on employee performance. These two independent variables also positively and significantly increase work discipline among the staff. We find that work discipline itself directly boosts employee performance. When testing the indirect relationships, work discipline successfully mediates the effect of transformational leadership on employee performance. Work discipline also significantly mediates the effect of work motivation on employee performance. Improving employee performance in this government office requires leaders who set good examples, strong inner drive among the staff, and strict work discipline to manage daily tasks.
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