The Influence of Spiritual Leadership and Employee Engagement toward Employee Performance: The Role of Organizational Commitment

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to analyze the impact of spiritual leadership and employee engagement in increasing organizational commitment and employee performance. This study involved 193 non-permanent lecturers at Muhammadiyah Private Universities, Indonesia. The structural equation model based on Smart PLS 3.0 software was used for data analysis. The results of this study reveal that spiritual leadership is able to increase employee commitment to the organization and is able to improve employee performance. In addition, employee engagement in the organization can increase employee commitment and be able to improve employee performance. Other research results show that employee commitment to the organization does not improve employee performance. Also, organizational commitment is not able to mediate the relationship between spiritual leadership and employee engagement on employee performance.