The Role of Organizational Commitment on Mediating the Relationship Between Leadership and Tri Hita Karana Culture with Subak Performance in Bali

Abstract

Economic deceleration during recent times, has added empirical proves that agricultural sector was stronger compared with modern sector in term of facing global development challenge. Elongated and continuous economic deceleration, not only causing unbalance on social economy and politic, and worse causing the depletion of supply needed by people including the farmers in Subak organization. The purpose of this study was to explore the role of organizational commitment on mediating the relationship between leadership and Tri Hita Karana culture with Subak performance in Bali. More specifically to test the role of leadership value and organizational commitment on mediating the relationship Tri Hita Karana culture on performance. This study design used surveillance method with data collection by purposive sampling with questionnaire, which was: Subak on Balinese rice field is agriculture field to grow rice and some other crops as their main plant. The analysis unit is Subak organization in Bali Province. The respondents which then included as sample was 90 people including Pekaseh, Prajuru, and members of organization. The data analysis technique which was used to test the hypothesis was Partial Least Square (PLS).The result of the study showed that good implementation of leadership values asta dasa paramiteng prabhu and Tri Hita Karana culture can increase Subak performance directly or by organizational commitment mediation on Subak in Bali Province. Good implementation of Tri Hita Karana culture can increase leadership quality, organizational commitment, and also the performance itself. But a good value of leadership cannot take effect on organizational commitment as mediation. The originality of this study provide the fundamental of configuration on model development with PLS method and prove that the conceptual model of leadership values and Tri Hita Karana (THK) culture as well as the role of organizational commitment mediation which prove to have effect on performance increase on Subak in Bali Province.Theoretically this study has been able to build theoretic model about Bali local leadership value (asta dasa paramiteng prabhu) on Bali local culture (Tri Hita Karana) as well as the role of organizational commitment mediation on performance increase on Subak in Bali Province. Practical implication of this study can provide knowledge and understanding to stakeholder on implicating local values which is THK culture and leadership in performance increase through organizational commitment.

Keywords: Tri Hita Karana culture, asta dasa paramiteng prabhu leadership, Organizational commitment and performance.