The Influence of Democratic Leadership on The Work Motivation of Educational Personnel at Yasni Bungo Islamic University
Abstract
This research examines the profile of democratic leadership, the work motivation of educational personnel, and the extent to which democratic leadership is associated with their work motivation at Yasni Bungo Islamic University. A quantitative method was employed through an ex post facto descriptive design with a causal-associative orientation. The study involved 50 educational personnel, selected through saturated sampling. Information was obtained by means of a Likert-scale questionnaire and subsequently processed using descriptive statistics and simple linear regression. The findings place democratic leadership in the high category, reflected by a mean score of 3.99. Work motivation likewise falls within the high category, with a mean of 3.97. The regression analysis demonstrates a positive and statistically significant relationship between democratic leadership and work motivation, indicated by a value of 6.478 and a significance value of 0.000 < 0.05. The R² reaches 0.468, signifying that democratic leadership accounts for 46.8% of the variation in educational personnel's work motivation, while the remaining 53.2% stems from factors not examined in this research. These results suggest that leadership practices characterized by participation, candid communication, freedom to convey viewpoints, mutual trust, and recognition may contribute to sustaining and strengthening employees' motivation at work.
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