How Important Leadership and Organizational Culture to Build Working Motivation

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume IV, Issue V, May 2020 | ISSN 2454–6186

How Important Leadership and Organizational Culture to Build Working Motivation

Ratih Komala Sari¹, Setyo Riyanto^2
1Master of Management Student, Mercubuana University Jakarta, Indonesia
²Lecturer of Postgraduate, Mercubuana University Jakarta, Indonesia

Abstract: This paper aims to discuss the important role of leadership in organizations to help further understand the organizational culture that exists in a company so that it can provide a role in encouraging work motivation. This paper is aimed at employees at one of the logistics companies in Indonesia, namely PT YI with the characteristics of a contract employee of 52 people. The author gets an overview of the role of leadership, organizational culture, and work motivation through a survey conducted as data analysis and reviewing some literature. It can be concluded that the role of leadership in providing an understanding of organizational culture provides a role for employees to have work motivation so as to achieve the goals of the organization.

Keywords: Leadership, Organizational Culture, Working Motivation

I. INTRODUCTION

Changes that exist in a company are increasingly dynamic with increasing the magnitude of environmental conditions faced. The company needs to have an appropriate strategy to form a conducive and communicative organizational atmosphere. One thing that can be done is to have the right leadership ability for the leaders in the company.

According to [10] leaders in organizations have a big role in setting a vision to achieve organizational goals, and also able to create an environment that can motivate the organization so that organizational goals can be achieved. The ability that must be possessed by a leader one of which is able to accommodate the ideas of its members, this is in accordance with that conveyed by Lamb [11] providing opportunities for employees to share their creative ideas to improve critical situations is one of the characteristics of a participative leadership style. Participatory leaders empower their members by involving their members in achieving goals, so as to improve performance.

Creating a work environment on a team certainly requires a good ability on the leader. This will be seen to be an effective team if members have an understanding of the task and also a good relationship in teamwork. Team members will be highly motivated in completing tasks and also displaying high team cohesiveness as in [28].

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