Analysis of Transformational Leadership and Organizational Culture and Influence on Job Satisfaction and its Implications on Employee Performance

Seeing the bright prospects for food crop agriculture and horticulture, it is necessary for the government to participate by planning, implementing and coaching development in the agricultural sector with the aim of increasing agricultural production in order to increase the income and welfare of farmers or the community. This research was conducted at the Department of Agriculture, Food Crops and Horticulture, Kampar Regency. The aim of this research is to determine and analyze the influence of transformational leadership on employee satisfaction, the influence of organizational culture on employee satisfaction, the direct influence of transformational leadership on employee performance, direct influence of organizational culture on employee performance, the influence of job satisfaction on employee performance, the indirect influence of transformational leadership on employee performance through employee job satisfaction and the indirect influence of organizational culture on employee performance through employee job satisfaction. This research data consists of primary data and secondary data obtained using questionnaires, interviews, observations and research files. The population of this study was all employees at the Kampar Regency Agricultural Food Crops and Horticulture Service, which is known to number 177 people, and all of them were used as a sample. However, only 136 questionnaires were analyzed because there were several questionnaires that were incomplete. Hypothesis testing uses the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) model, with an alpha used of 5%. The results of the research conclude that: transformational leadership has been proven to have a significant effect on employee job satisfaction, organizational culture is proven to have a significant effect on employee job satisfaction, transformational leadership has been directly proven to have a significant effect on employee performance, organizational culture is proven to have a significant direct effect on employee performance, job satisfaction has been proven to have a significant effect on employee performance, indirect transformational leadership has not been proven to have a significant effect on employee performance through employee job satisfaction and organizational culture has been indirectly proven to have a significant effect on employee performance through employee job satisfaction.