Employee Work Productivity

Abstract

Leadership and work motivation were some aspects that can increase the work productivity of PT. Ramayana Lestari Sentosa. Human resources had a very important role in managing the retail business, where they should have skill knowledges in both soft skills and hard skills. Moreover, the success of a company must be supported by the employee productivity. Hence, the leader of a company should provide positive encouragements to their employees. Furthermore, a reliable leadership held the key point in the organizational development. The efforts to improve leadership and work motivation among the employees were already done effectively, but the work productivity was still not yet reach the target. The sampling technique used in this study was purposive sampling method. The selected respondents were the employees of PT Ramayana Lestari Sentosa with working period of more than 5 years. In this case, the researcher took a sample of 100 respondents. The hypothesis of this study were tested using the technique of Multiple Linear Analysis. The results of this study indicate that leadership had no direct effect on the employee productivity, while work motivation was able to significantly intercede between the influence of leadership and the employee productivity. The implication of this study can contribute to management in making policies to increase employee productivity, where leaders who have managerial competence and responsibility for completing tasks followed by employee achievement motivation will have an effect on the progress of the company.