28Jul 2017

THE ANALYSIS ON THE EFFECT OF LEADERSHIP CHARACTER ON MOTIVATION AND THE IMPACT OF MOTIVATION ON THE COMMITMENT OF SOLDIERS AT KODAM V BRAWIJAYA.

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Leadership issue is always interesting topic. Some literatures of leadership have explained what someone must do to be a good leader. Attitude and style of leader must be set in compliance with leadership situation or precondition of a good leader. Organization may fail or success mostly because of leadership. An expression said that it was a leader who must take responsibility for the failure of certain work. It means that a leader would sit on the important position in the organization. Leader would take account for leadership. Speaking about leadership, it is like an attractive scenery for highlight. Over times, leadership is a center of human being. There is an expression that leadership has been old as human history. Leadership is needed by human because human needs a strength and wants to restrain a weakness. Leadership character can influence soldiers? performance. One factor improving soldiers? work achievement is organizational commitment. However, it is still problematic because soldiers? performance is affected by leadership character. This research is attempting to analyze the effect of leadership character on soldiers? motivation, to examine the effect of soldiers? motivation in the environment at Kodam V Brawijaya on commitment, and to recognize factor with the most dominant effect on soldiers? motivation in the environment at Kodam V Brawijaya. Research lasts for 3 months from 18 January 2017 to 21 March 2017 at Kodam V Brawijaya. Type of research is survey using questionnaire. Data are processed with statistic tool. Therefore, this research applies quantitative data through Structural Equation Model with Software WarpPLS 5.0. Result of research gives several indications. (1) Leadership character at Kodam V Brawijaya is represented by directive leadership character. It is a character in which commanders are willing to understand soldiers? aspiration; always giving direction to the soldiers; and delegating soldiers in proper manner. All of these give positive effect on soldiers? intrinsic motivation. Strong motivation from leader is indeed influential to soldiers by intrinsic or extrinsic ways. Soldiers? extrinsic motivation, related to creating conducive organizational environment, will improve soldiers? commitment through a recognition given to the soldiers for their performance. (2) The dominant factors influencing organizational commitment at Kodam V Brawijaya environment is directive leadership character, strong motivation to lead, and extrinsic motivation with conducive work environment.


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[Abdul Hanan, Zaenal Fanani and Mohammad Soleh. (2017); THE ANALYSIS ON THE EFFECT OF LEADERSHIP CHARACTER ON MOTIVATION AND THE IMPACT OF MOTIVATION ON THE COMMITMENT OF SOLDIERS AT KODAM V BRAWIJAYA. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Jul). 1979-1985] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


abdul hanan
brawijaya university

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/4930      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/4930