The Influence of Leadership, Organizational Climate, and Work Motivation on Employee’s Performance
1418 Interdisciplinary Social Studies, 1(12), Sep 2022
attracted the attention of theoreticalists and researchers in the field of organizational theory.
The behavior of a leader in directing subordinates can be grouped in one-way communication
and two-way communication (Pasaribu, 2021). One-way communication is the extent to which
a leader involves himself in influencing and directing his subordinates, including establishing
the role that the follower should perform, informing about what should be done, and carrying
out strict supervision (Mundung et al., 2015). While two-way communication is the behavior
of the leader in supporting his subordinates, for example listening, providing support,
facilitating interaction, and involving employees in decision making (Faturahman, 2018).
In addition to leadership, the organizational climate also affects the behavior of a worker,
which affects his way of life, to whom he relates, who he likes, how his work activities are,
what he wants to achieve, and how he adjusts to the organization. The organizational climate
is much more important in influencing a person's behavior at work than the skills or techniques
that he has. Changes in the organizational climate make an agency need to align the
circumstances that occur inside with the circumstances outside a work environment (Katili,
2021). In the organizational climate, there is a human environment in which the employees of
an organization do their jobs. The organizational climate concerns all existing environments or
those faced by employees who are in an organization that affects employees in carrying out
organizational activities because the environment that is either directly or indirectly greatly
affects the organizational climate (Setiawan, 2015).
In order to achieve organizational goals, employees need motivation to be more active in
working so that work results become better and more punctual (Amalia et al., 2020). Seeing
the importance of employees in the organization, employees need to be more serious in carrying
out their duties so that organizational goals can be achieved. In an attempt to achieve the goals
of the organization that have been set before, it is the task of the leader to empower all the
resources that exist in the organization especially its human resources through the provision of
motivation (Candra & Fatimah, 2020). The best motivation is one that arises from within the
employee's person (Gultom, 2014), so that the employees will give the best of themselves for
the betterment of their organization.
Therefore, government agencies are required to create a good work environment so that
employees can provide the best service and apply the principles of good governance. This
requires policies that lead to improving the quality of services and changing the organizational
climate that makes employees feel comfortable at work and providing motivation from the
leadership so as to make the West Kutai Regency Inspectorate the best state apparatus
institution.
Nufus (2021) found that the organizational climate had a positive and significant effect on
employee performance with a regression equation value of Y = 17.765 + 0.699X, and a
correlation coefficient value of 0.819 or having a strong relationship rate with a determination
value of 67.0%. On another occasion, in their research, Tsani and Hariyanto (2020) showed
that work motivation, organizational climate and leadership have a significant effect on
employee performance. However, none of these researchers have conducted such study in West
Kutai Regency. Therefore, it is necessary to explore more of the topic in the location.
Based on the background that has been stated above, the author is interested in conducting
research entitled The Influence of Leadership, Organizational Climate and Motivation on the
Performance of Employees of the West Kutai Regency Inspectorate. This study aims to