PENINGKATAN KINERJA MELALUI SERVANT LEADERSHIP, DISIPLIN KERJA DAN KEPUASAN KERJA PADA DINAS PERTANIAN KABUPATEN DEMAK

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the influence of servant leadership and work discipline on employee
performance with job satisfaction as intervening variable. Population in this research is employees
who work at Agriculture Department of Demak Regency for 121 employees, with total sample
of 55 employees. The sampling technique used in this study is Proportional Random Sampling.
The analysis tool is the path analysis, where previously tested the validity and reliability as well
as the classical assumption test. Test results show that servant leadership and work discipline
proved to have a positive and significant impact on job satisfaction. Servant leadership proved
to have a positive and significant influence on employee performance, can be interpreted that
the higher servant leadership, the more leaders are able to serve their subordinates sincerely,
so that it will have an impact on the high performance of employees. Work discipline proved to
have a positive and significant effect on employee performance. Job satisfaction has a positive
and significant effect on employee performance, meaning that the higher level of job satisfaction
of employees, it will certainly have an impact on the high performance of employees.

Keywords: Servant leadership, work discipline, job satisfaction and employee performance