Abstract: The background in the research is the lack of attention from the leader that causes negligence or lack of employee discipline, lack of teamwork and lack of employee responsibility in completing work given by the leader, and the lack of support obtained by employees for career paths in the company. The purpose of this study was to determine the role of motivation mediating the influence of transformational leadership styles on employee performance. This research was conducted at the Department of Cooperatives and SMEs in the Province of Bali. The number of samples taken was 56 employees with the method used was saturated. Data collection was carried out through interviews and questionnaires. Data analysis techniques used are path analysis, single analysis and VAF analysis.
The results found that Transformational Leadership has a positive and significant effect on employee performance, Transformational Leadership has a positive and significant effect on motivation, motivation has a significant positive effect on employee performance and motivation positively and significantly mediates the effect of Transformational Leadership on employee performance. The implications of this research are expected to be able to lead to innovation and creativity of subordinates in doing work and leaders are able to provide encouragement to employees so that enthusiasm in work so that employees are able to increase their contribution and performance in order to create more effective and efficient work results.
Keywords: Employee performance, Transformational Leadership, Motivation.
Title: The Role of Motivation Mediate the Effect of Transformational Leadership on Employee Perfomance
Author: I Kadek Duwik Pradiptasari, I Gusti Made Suwandana
International Journal of Management and Commerce Innovations
ISSN 2348-7585 (Online)
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