The Role of Work Motivation in Mediating the Influence of Job Training and Democratic Leadership Style on Employee Performance (Case Study on Seafood Restaurant in the Kedonganan Beach Culinary Area, Kedonganan Village)

This study aims to analyze the role of work motivation in mediating the influence of job training and democratic leadership style on employee performance by conducting a case study on a seafood restaurant in the culinary area of Kedonganan Beach, Kedonganan Village. This research is quantitative research in the form of associative. The type of data used in this study is quantitative data with primary and secondary data sources. The data collection method uses field survey methods and literature studies. The population in this study is 1,260 seafood restaurant employees within 24 seafood restaurants in the Kedonganan Beach culinary area. The sample was determined based on the Slovin formula so that as many as 100 employees were sampled randomly. The research instrument used was a questionnaire with a Likert scale of 1-7. The data analysis used in this study is SEM PLS. The results of the study show that training and democratic leadership style have a positive and significant effect on employee motivation and employee performance at seafood restaurants in the Kedonganan Beach culinary area. Work motivation has a positive influence on employee performance, where the higher the work motivation, the better the performance produced. Work motivation has been shown to be able to mediate the relationship between training and democratic leadership style to employee performance. This shows that work motivation is an important factor in improving performance through training and democratic leadership.