Hubungan Kepemimpinan dan Motivasi Kerja Pegawai dengan Kinerja Puskesmas di Kabupaten Jember (The Correlation between Leadership and Employee’s Work Motivation with Working Performance of Public Health Center in Jember)

Abstract

The working performance of Public Health Center (PHC) is very essential in health
development efforts. The working performances of PHC in 2012 is recorded from 89,7 to
144,20 and in 2013 is from 110,02 to 156,14. These values are far below the standard of
199. This shows that there is a problem of low working performance of PHC in Jember.
This study aims to analyze the correlation between leadership and employee motivation
to the working performance of PHC in Jember. The study is an analytical research with
quantitative design. The number of sample was 316 respondent. The data were
analyzed by using the Spearman rank correlation test. The result of the study showed
that the leadership is in the category of good and very good leadership (89,9%),
employees work motivation is in the medium category (63%) and it also showed that the
performance of PHC in Jember is in the medium category. The analysis results indicate
that there is a correlation between leadership and the working performance of PHC
(0,049<α), and there is a correlation between employee’s working motivation with the
working performance of PHC in Jember (0,016<α). It can be concluded that there is a
correlation between leadership and employee’s working motivation to the working
performance of PHC.
Keywords: Leadership, Work Motivation, Working Performance of Public Health Center