The Role of Work Commitment and Work Motivation in Mediate the Influence of Transformational Leadership on the Performance (Study on PT. Terminal Peti Kemas Surabaya)

Abstract

This research aims to empirically examine and analyze: influence transformational leadership toward employee performance; influence work commitment and work motivation toward employee performance; work commitment and work motivation as mediating the influnce transformastional leadership toward employee performance. The results of this study are expected to contribute to science, especially human resources, especially the relationship between transformational leadership on work commitment, work motivation and performance.

This study is a survey of the employees of PT. Terminal Peti Kemas Suarabaya. The research method used is explanatory research. The study population was all employees of PT. Surabaya Container Terminal which has been working for 2 years and as many as 512 employees. Determination of the samples was done by using the formula Slovin and further unknown samples are 131 employees. analysis used in the study is the GSCA (Generalized structured component analysis).

The results of this study establish that leadership trasnformasional insignificantly on employee performance. Work commitment and work motivation have a significantly on employee performance. Further work commitment and work motivation as mediating the influence of transformational leadership on employee performance. Although the work commitment and work motivation has a role to produce performance, but still need to be improved in order to build better organizational conditions for performance of employees and further improve the performance of the organization.

Keywords: Transformational Leadership, Work Commitment, Work Motivation and Employee Performance.