Pengaruh Gaya Kepemimpinan dan Motivasi Terhadap Kegairahan Kerja Karyawan di Kantor Balai Wilayah Sungai Sumatera II Medan

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to identify the impact of leadership style and motivation towards the employees’ performances at Regional Office II of Sumatera River Basin Medan. The method used in this study is the associative research which proposing the relationship between two variables. The population of the study are all of the employees of Regional Office II of Sumatera River Basin Medan which are 300 respondents. Then by utilizing the slovin sampling method, 75 respondents participate partially of the total population. After conducting the t test, it can be seen that leadership style variable shows tvalue(5.838)>ttable(1.666) with the t probability of significance value0.000< 0.05. This indicates thatleadership style variable has a positive and significantimpact towardsemployees’ performances variable. Then, motivation shows that tvalue(2.176)>ttable(1.666) with sig. level 0.033 is lower than significance limitation is 0.05, thus, it partially has a positive and significantimpact towardsemployees’ performancesvariable also. Furthermore, the F-test reveals that Fvalue(30.829)>Ftable(3.12)withsig. 0.000 < 0.05, it showed that H0 was rejected and Hawas accepted. Thus, bothleadership style and motivation variablessimultaneously have a positive and significanceimpacts towards employees’ performancesvariable.Adjusted R Square value is 0.446. To find out the impact of free variable to bound variable was by using determinationcoefficient (KD) = R2 x 100%, so it gained KD = 44.6%. Thus, the value showed that as much 44.6% of employees’ performances(bound variable) can be explained by leadership style and motivation.Nevertheless, a total 53.6% other factors were not included in the study