dc.description.abstract | LP 31 Politeknik, Medan, is one of the colleges which is focused on the
establishment of high-ranking prospective men who are ready to enter
employment with skillful foundation of "Vocational-based Polytechnic" which
enables the students/alumni ofLP31 Politeknik to be employed With the format of
"Vocational-based Polytechnic", this college projects its students to be promoted
to be apprentice or get jobs after completing all subjects. The objective of this
research was to find out and analyze the influence of leadership style, work
supervision, and firm culture on employees' performance with motivation as
intervening variable at the Politeknik LP3/, Medan. The research used descriptive
quantitative and explanatory research method The data were gathered by
conducting interviews, documentary study, and survey by distributing
questionnaires to 55 employees at the Politeknik LP3/, Medan, using random
sampling technique and analyzed by using path analysis with an SPSS 20. 00
software program. The result of the research showed that leadership style had
positive and significant influence on the employees' work motivation, work
supervision had positive and insignificant influence on the employees' work
motivation, and firm culture had positive and significant irifluence on the
employees' work motivation. It was also found that leadership style, work
supervision, and firm culture had indirect irifluence on performance through
motivation, but indirect influence of leadership style on performance was lower
than direct irifluence which indicated that it was- actually direct irifluence. Indirect
irifluence of work supervision was- higher than its direct irifluence which indicated
that it was actually direct irifluence. Indirect irifluence of firm culture on
performance was higher than its direct influence which indicated that it was
actually dire::t irifluence. | en_US |