Summary: | This research has goals to know the effect of a transformational leadership
for a work satisfaction, the effect of a work satisfaction for an organizational
commitment, the effect of a transformational leadership for an organizational
commitment, and the effect of a transformational leadership for an organizational
commitment with a work satisfaction as the mediation variable.
This research is a kind of descriptive research. The taken sample is the
people who can be met easily at that time by the data collector (convenience
sampling). Based on the filtered data, there are 86 people who are chosen to be
respondents. There are three kinds of variable in this research, those are free variable
(X): transformational leadership, tied variable (Y): organizational variable, and
mediation variable (M): work satisfaction. This research use Baron and Kenny mode
(1986) with four steps of testing as the regression analysis which is used to test the
relationship of mediation variable.
Based on the analysis result, there are some conclusions as following: 1) the
transformational leadership significantly influences the work satisfaction. 2) the
work satisfactionsignificantly influences organizational commitment. 3) the
transformational leadership significantly influences organizational commitment. 4)
the result of this research supports the result of the previous research which found
that a work satisfaction is the mediation variable for the relationship between
transformational leadirship and organizational commitment. The implication of this
research shows the importance of leadirship to the effort management to develop the
commitment of employees. Leadership, especially transformational leadership will
be able to influence the work satisfaction of employees, and will also be able to
develop the employees� commitment.
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