Abstract
The purpose of this study describes competency, academic culture, spiritual leadership, motivation and lecturers’performance; to analyze the influence of competency, academic culture and spiritual leadership on motivation and to analyze the influence of competency, academic culture and spiritual leadership on lecturers’performance through motivation in Merdeka University in East Java. Using the ‘Structural Equation Modeling’ with 193 lectures as samples, this study has following results: (1) Competencies’ factor dimensions consist of pedagogical competency, professional competency, personality competency and social competency all showed significant contributions to competency. As academic culture’s factor dimensions, infrastructure, organizational management, curriculum and involvement-participation all showed significant contributions to academic culture. Regarding factor dimensions, integrity, communication and intelligence all showed significant contributions to spiritual leadership. With respect factor dimensions, physiological need, social need and sense of belonging, self-esteem need and self-actualization need all showed significant contributions to motivation. In addition, the lecturers’performance, education and teaching-learning, research and development, community service with extra activities contributed significantly. (2) Competency has significant impact on motivation; but not with academic culture and spiritual leadership (3) Academic culture has significant impact on lecturers’performance but not with competency and spiritual leadership; (4) Motivation mediates the effect of competency on lecturers’performance. Thus, spiritual leadership has no impact on motivation nor lecturers’ performance.
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