Peran Job Crafting Capability dan Keterikatan Kerja sebagai Pemediasi pada Dukungan Organisasi dan Kepemimpinan Etis terhadap Kesejahteraan Karyawan Perusahaan Perkebunan Swasta di Sumatera Utara

Abstract

Every company always desires quality human resources as a valuable asset sought for and maintained. In order to get optimal work output, a company has to optimize the supporting factors of its employees. In the world of organizations, welfare is associated with employee wellbeing. Several important factors that can optimize employee wellbeing include perceived organizational support, ethical leadership, job crafting capability and work involvement in a company. This study aims to analyze and examine the influence of perceived organizational support and ethical leadership on private plantation staff with the addition of job crafting capability and work involvement as mediating variables, so as to optimize the employee wellbeing expected from private plantation staff. This study is a quantitative descriptive study and the nature of the research is explanatory research. The population includes staff at private plantation companies consisting of PT Socfin Indonesia, PT Anglo Eastern Indonesia, PT Pangkatan Indonesia, PT Tolan Tiga and Verdant Bioscience totaling 208 people with a sample of 170 people taken by proportional random sampling. Data collection techniques were carried out by interviews, documentation studies and distributing a list of statements (questionnaires). Data analysis techniques using the Structural Equation Model (SEM). The test results without mediation effects show that perceived organizational support, ethical leadership and job crafting capability each have a positive and significant effect on employee wellbeing, while work engagement has a positive but insignificant effect on employee wellbeing. Testing with mediation effects successfully answered the research gap between perceived organisational support on employee wellbeing and the research gap between ethical leadership on employee wellbeing by placing job crafting capability as a mediating variable which proved positive and significant. Furthermore, the test results showed a positive but insignificant influence between perceived organisational support on employee wellbeing through work engagement. In addition, it was found that ethical leadership has a positive but insignificant effect on employee wellbeing through work engagement of staff in private plantation companies.