The Influence Of Communication And Leadership Style On Employee Performance With Motivation As A Mediator

Research Aims: This study's goal is to examine how leadership and communication styles affect worker performance, using motivation as a mediating factor. Design/methodology/approach: This study was conducted on a population with 57 employees, data was used and then collected through a distributed questionnaire. Structural Equation Modelling-Partial Least Square (SEM-PLS Version 4.1) is the analysis method used in this study. The purpose of this study is to examine the mediation link between employee performance, motivation, leadership style, and communication. Research Findings: the findings of this study show that Leadership Style has no significant effect on Employee performance, and Leadership Style has a significant effect on motivation, and communication on employee performance has a non-significant positive effect, meaning that there is still a lack of communication in organizationalization on motivation, and motivation shows that there is a significant effect on employee performance. Furthermore, for the leadership style on employee performance with motivation as mediation, the results show that motivation significantly and can optimize the leadership style on employee performance, for the communication variable, the results show that motivation has a significant effect and can optimize communication on employee performance. This is because motivation has an important role in motivating employees to be able to work even harder. Theoretical Contribution/Originality: This study can provide empirical evidence about the role of motivation mediation in the relationship between leadership style and employee performance. This means that the organization needs to increase the commitment of employees who work and the motivation of employees to improve the performance of their employees. Keywords: Communication, Leadership Style, Employee Performance, Motivation