The Effect of Leadership Style and Job Satisfaction toward the PKWT Employee at PT. Kereta API Indonesia IX Jember Operational Area with Organizational Commitment as Intervening Variable

Abstract

Regard to achieve the goals of a company hence required the qualified human resources. Qualified human resources are expected to produce a good performance and can provide the advancement for company. Therefore it is required to increase human resources to support it.The improvement of human resources reflected by employee performance that has many factors which influence the leadership style, job satisfaction and organizational commitment. The aim of this research is to observe the influence of leadership style and job satisfaction toward the PKWT employee in PT. Kereta Api Indonesia (Railway Station) IX Jember Operational Area with organizational commitment as an intervening variable. This research used explanatory research with survey method. The populations consists of 126 people using saturated samples. The result of the research shows that the significant effect from anexogenous variable on the intervening variable as well as the exogenous variable has a positive effect on the endogenous variable.