CREATIVITY AND TRANSFORMATIONAL

LEADERSHIP ON PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYEE

PERFORMANCE.

Article presentation

스리 할더너
Sept, 19 2021
My Interest in article
Brief Introduction
This article describes some aspects that are able to drive improved
performance in government organizations through a study involving
several aspects in individuals in a government organization. These
aspects are creativity, emotional intelligence, transformational
leadership in building organizational commitment and will ultimately
have the potential to improve organizational performance. Using a
two-step approach to structural equations modeling to test proposed
model, 400 respondents of the state civil apparatus from 8 districts /
cities in Central Java, namely: Semarang City, Banyumas Regency,
Pemalang Regency, Cilacap Regency, Blora Regency, Purbalingga
Regency, and Salatiga City and Surakarta City.
 Creativity &
1 Organizational
Commitment
Emotional Intelligence
2 and Organizational
Commitment
Transformational Leadership
3 and Organizational
Commitment
Liou (2008) argues that organization's commitment reflects one's
perseverance in making sacrifices to the organizational goals.
Organizational commitment can make employees or members of the
organization sacrifice the soul, body, time, thought and material for
the success of the achievement of organizational goals.
Goleman (2007) states that emotion is a mental condition that involves
biological, psychological, or the inclination to act. Therefore,
emotions will affect the thoughts and actions of the individual.
According to Robbins &Judge (2013), transformational leaders are
those who inspire their followers to put aside their personal interests
for the good of the organization and they can have a tremendous
influence on their followers.
 Creativity on the Bernadin et al. (1995) defines performance as the result of the function of a particular job or
4 Performance activity over a period of time.

Creativity is a mental process that involves the emergence of new ideas or concepts, or new relationships between existing ideas
or concepts.
Segal (1997) shows that the scope of emotional intelligence is personal and social relationships. Emotional
Personal relationships are a person's ability to control his emotions and control his personal self in Intelligence On
Performance
5
certain conditions.
variables that included in emotional intelligence is intrapersonal skill or self-control skill, interpersonal skill or interacting
skills with others, asertive or have a certainty, contentmen in life or satisfaction in life, resilience to environmental changes or
unfavorable situations, self-esteemor and self-actualization.

Transformational There are four components of transformational leadership, namely idealized influence,
6 Leadership and
Performance
inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration (Robbins &
Judge, 2013)
Transformational leaders are believed to be more successful in encouraging organizational change because of the emotion of
followers and their willingness to work to realize the leader's vision.
Organizational
7 Commitment and
the Performance
Study Purposes
Research Design
This type of research includes an explanatory research, a study that highlights the
relationship between research variables and tests the previously formulated
hypothesis.

Sampling and Location

The number of samples in the study were 400 civil apparatus from 8 regencies /
cities in Central Java, namely: Semarang City, Banyumas Regency, Pemalang
Regency, Cilacap Regency, Blora Regency, Purbalingga Regency, and Salatiga
City and Surakarta City. Sampling technique in this research is purposive
sampling. The study was conducted from January 2017 - June 2017.
 Variable Measurement

The measurement of creativity variable is by using

several indicators such as interesting on creative
activities, open to new experiences, initiate, having an
original idea, and being not easily influenced by others.
The emotional intelligence measurement is by indicators of
self-awareness, self-control, self-motivation, empathy, and
social skills.

Transformational leadership is measured by

idealized influence, inspirational motivation,
intellectual stimulation, individual consideration.
The variable of organizational commitment is measured by
using indicators of keeping working in institutions,
maintaining good relationships for an indefinite period of
time, high loyalty to institutions, feeling belonging to
The performance is measured by the accuracy of institutions, boasting of institutions
execution of tasks, the quality of task execution,
sufficient skills in carrying out the task, the results of
employee work on target, and effective and efficient
workflow.
Data Analysis Data Conformity Assessment – Model
Model testing is done by using Structural Equation Modeling TABLE 1
STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING FEASIBILITY TESTING INDEX
(SEM) with two step approach. In the two-Step Approach to No. Goodness of fit index Cut of Value Results Evaluation
SEM, the measurement model is first formulated and evaluated 1 χ 2 - Chi-Square <109.77 91.274 Good
separately and then set in the second step is done when 2 Significancy Probability 0.05 0.063 Good
3 CMIN/DF 2.00 1.865 Good
the structural model is estimated (Hair et al., 2012). 4 GFI 0.90 0.921 Good
5 AGFI 0.90 0.946 Good
6 TLI 0.95 0.980 Good
7 CFI 0.95 0.962 Good
8 RMSEA 0.08 0.056 Good

TABLE 2
Validity and Reliability Testing RELIABILITY TESTING
Variables Std. Loading Standar Error Reliability
factor loading of each indicator > 0.40 Creativity 3.654 0.901 0.921
Emotional Intellegence 3.921 0.895 0.898
Transformational Leadership 4.573 1.125 0.875
all construct reliability values > 0,7 Organizational Commitment 4.218 1.042 0.917
Performance 4.012 0.746 0.934
SPEARMAN RHO CORRELATION

R Means R Interval
Perfect Negative -1
Strong Negatives -1 < r < - 0.9
Moderate Negatives - 0.9 < r < - 0.5
Weak Negatives - 0.5 < r < 0
Uncorrelated 0
Weak Positive 0 < r < 0.5
Moderate Positive 0.5 < r < 0.9
Strong Positives 0.9 < r < 1
Perfect Positive 1
Sudarno, 2017
Hypothesis

H1 : Creativity has a significant positive effect on accepted organizational commitment.

H2 : Emotional intelligence has a significant positive effect on accepted organizational commitment.

H3 : Transformational leadership has a significant positive effect on organizational commitment.

H4 : Transformational leadership has a significant positive effect on organizational commitment.

H5 : Emotional intelligence has a significant positive effect on performance.

H6 : Transformational leadership has a significant positive effect on performance.

H7 : organizational commitment has a significant positive effect on acceptable performance.


The authors do not specifically specify
the origin of respondents based on the
duties and functions of public service
organizations. For example, there will be
a difference between the opinions of
respondents from public service
institutions and special services such as
training institutions, health institutions
etc.
The authors do not explain the age limit
and level of position of respondents who
may have a subjective view of
organizational conditions that affect
respondents' attitudes to questions in
questioners.
This article has provided technical
references for government organizations
in terms of improving performance as an
institution tasked with providing the best
service to the community.
This article provides some clear
recommendations related to existing
problems that have been often ignored.
This article is excellent information to be
used as a discussion in the organization
and involves all levels of management
and employees. To arouse individual
commitment in the organization and make
The author did not specify the length of it a reflection.
work of the respondent. Because this can
also affect the working attitudes of the
organization's employees.
 How do you think how to In your opinion, what are the factors
increase employee creativity that have the potential to inhibit the
that can be done, if you are the emergence of employee creativity in
leader of the organization? government organizations?

Will the level of position and tenure

affect a person's attitude regarding
creativity, emotional intelligence
and organizational commitment,
explain your views?