Increase Employee Morale Through Transformational Leadership, Employee Relation, and Work Environment

Ayunda Putri Larasati,S Martono

doi:10.15294/maj.v10i1.34088

Abstract

This aims of this study is to determine the effect of transformational leadership, employee relations, and work environment on employee morale on employees of the Department of Trade, Cooperatives, and SMEs Magelang Regency. The type and design of research used in this study is quantitative research. Sampling in this study uses a saturated sampling technique and obtained a sample size that must be used is 130 employees. The analytical method used is the instrument test (validity and reliability), the classic assumption test, and the hypothesis test with the application of SPSS 22. Data collection methods using interviews, questionnaires, and literature studies. The results of this study indicate that three hypotheses were accepted. So it can be seen that transformational leadership has a positive and significant effect on employee morale. Employee relations have a positive and significant effect on employee morale. The work environment has a positive and significant effect on employee morale. Transformational leadership, employee relation, and work environment together has a positive and significant effect on employee morale.

Highlights

The growth of science and technology is increasingly rapidly in this century, making organizations both business organizations and public institutions are required to be able to make changes as a strategy to adapt to the environment in order to survive and sustainable organizations (Laksmana, 2014)
In this study tested 56 statements, where the transformational leadership variable consisted of 15 statements, employee relations consisted of 18 statements, the work environment consisted of statements, and morale consisted of statement items
Based on the results it can be concluded that the transformational leadership can improve employee morale Department of Trade, Cooperatives and SMEs Magelang

Summary

INTRODUCTION

The growth of science and technology is increasingly rapidly in this century, making organizations both business organizations and public institutions are required to be able to make changes as a strategy to adapt to the environment in order to survive and sustainable organizations (Laksmana, 2014). The results of research conducted by Widiantari (2015) which says that leadership has a significant positive effect on employee morale This shows that a leader can direct and influence subordinates to achieve company goals that have been determined, so that it will make employees work well and increase their morale. The activities carried out will be able to improve and build employee job satisfaction which will later be able to build employee morale in doing work (Baskoro, 2014) This is supported by previous research conducted by Hillary (2018) which states that employee relations have a positive and significant effect on employee morale, meaning that the better employee relations in the company will be able to increase employee morale. H4: The better transformational leadership, employee relations and work environment will improve employee morale

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