JMK, VOL. 23, NO. 1, MARCH 2021, 52–60 DOI: 10.9744/jmk.23.1.

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ISSN 1411-1438 print / ISSN 2338-8234 online

THE ROLE OF MOTIVATION AS MEDIATION IN IMPROVING

EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF SURABAYA
CITY EAST JAVA
Sumiati Sumiati
Faculty of Economics and Business Universitas 17 Agustus 1945 Surabaya, Indonesia
Email: Sumiatife@untag-sby.ac.id

Abstract
This paper discussed the causal relationship between servant leadership, professionality, work culture,
motivation, and the performance of Surabaya City Government employees. One model was proposed to verify
the role of motivation as a mediating variable in the indirect relationship of servant leadership, professionality,
work culture and performance. The population was the government employees of Surabaya City. Analysis by
SEM, on 290 respondents, used the convenience sampling method. The results showed that the model was
accepted, and also showed that servant leadership, professional, and work culture had an effect on motivation.
Servant leadership, work culture and motivation had an effect on employee performance. Motivation was a
positive mediating variable in the relationship between servant leadership, professional, and work culture with
performance.

Keywords: Servant leadership, professionalism, work culture, motivation, employee performance.

Introduction field in carrying out their duties and obligations with a

full sense of responsibility. Futri and Juliarsa (2014)
Leaders who are able to form a work atmosphere and Rahayuningsih (2012) showed that there was a
and culture that encourage employee growth and relationship between professionalism and perfor-
development are successful leaders. A superior leader mance. Optimal employee performance can also
has the ability to develop a positive influence on his provide benefits to the organization in terms of work
members and do the work as desired to achieve the that will be quickly resolved, damage reduced, and
goals set. The leadership factor plays a very important attendance minimized. Therefore, organizational lea-
role in improving employee performance because ders need to pay attention to circumstances that affect
effective leadership provides direction to the efforts of employee performance.
all employees in achieving organizational goals. To be
The influence of work motivation on per-
able to improve employee performance to the maxi-
formance is proven by Habba, Modding, Bim, and
mum, the leader can apply an effective leadership style
so that employee performance increases and organi- Bijan (2017). Employee’s work motivation at a high
zational goals are achieved (Sedarmayanti, 2017). One level is shown to improve employee performance.
good guideline for improving employee performance Meanwhile, Harwiki (2013) showed the effect of
is to adopt a leadership style that builds motivation. servant leadership on employee motivation and per-
The leader's job is to serve. The best leaders are formance. Sugiarti, Suntoro, and Nurmalisa (2015)
the best servants (Sedarmayanti, 2017). The new proved that there was a relationship between work
leadership model is a leadership model that seeks to motivation on employee performance and work
simultaneously increase the personal growth of culture on employee performance.
employees, and improve the quality of organizational Work culture is a group of basic thoughts or
services on community development. This is done mental programs that can be used to increase work
through a combination of teamwork, and caring and efficiency and employee cooperation (Ndraha, 2012).
ethical behavior. This leadership concept is called Arianto (2013) proved the existence of a relationship
servant leadership. Harwiki (2013), proves that servant among work culture and performance. Motivation is
leadership influences motivation, organizational cul- the drive, effort, and desire that exists in humans that
ture, and employee performance. Meanwhile, Koes- activate, empower, and direct behavior to carry out
mono (2014) compares a servant leadership relation- tasks well in the scope of work (Hakim, 2006).
ship to employee performance. Robbins (2008) defined motivation as a process that
To support the achievement of organizational helps determine the intensity, direction, and persistence
goals, professional and well-performing employees are of an individual in achieving goals. Cahyono and
needed. Employee professionalism is the basic ability Suharto (2005) and Hakim (2006) showed the
of someone who has special expertise in a particular influence of work motivation on performance.

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A person's performance is a combination of - Humble: The ability to maintain a balance between

abilities, efforts and opportunities that can be assessed possessions and the awareness that what the leader
from the results of his work. Bernardin and Russel has achieved can happen because of the abilities
(2003) stated that performance was the recording of a and contributions of the followers, not because of
job at one particular time. Robbins (2008) stated that themselves;
performance was the willingness of a person or group - Altruism: The act of helping others sincerely;
of people to do an activity and perfect it according to - Having a Vision: The leader builds the organi-
their responsibilities with the expected results. Accord- zation's vision through the visions of the followers
ing to Effendy (2018) performance was executed and in the aggregate;
its output was the result of the employees behavior dis- - Trust: Followers believe that workers in orga-
played within their role in the organization. nizations with servant leadership will lead to
Performance can be defined as the results and achieving the follower's vision;
outputs of an employee produced in accordance with - Empowering others: Entrusting power to the other
his support at the organization and at one time. One of party, then declaring it. Make each follower feel
the main factors in increasing productivity is employee meaningful, important to the organization and his
performance. Performance is an indicator in deter- work, emphasize teamwork, value love and equa-
mining how efforts are achieved at high levels of lity;
productivity in an organization. - Serving: Service must be the main function of
The city of Surabaya is the capital of the province leadership, not based on self-interest but more
of East Java, which has the highest number of directed at the interests of followers and the or-
employees, amounting to 14,220 (BPS Provinsi Jawa ganization.
Timur, 2019), so that the Surabaya City Government is
an example and role model for others city and district
Lestari, Florentinus, and Sudana (2019) showed
governments in East Java Province.
that the leadership of the principal affects teacher
From some of the explanations above, it can be
motivation, and there was an effect of incentives on
concluded that motivation will arise as a result of the
teacher motivation. Chen, Chen, and Li (2013) show-
trigger (servant leadership, professionalism, and work
culture), and motivated employees will carry out their ed that spiritual values perceived by subordinates, as
duties and responsibilities optimally. Therefore, this well as differences between leader or subordinate
study is conducted to get a better understanding of the perceptions contribute significantly in predicting
relationship between motivation and employee perfor- subordinates' motivational autonomy. Su, Lyu, Chen,
mance in the Surabaya City Government, and to chek and Zhang, (2020) and Harwiki (2013) proved that
the role of motivation as a mediating variable in the servant leadership had an effect on employee moti-
relationship among servant leadership, professi- vation, culture, and performance. Khan, Khan, and
onalism, and work culture on employee performance, Zeeshan (2016) proved that there was a relationship
which is a moderator in this research. between servant leadership style and worker motiva-
tion. Based on this description, the following hypo-
Servant Leadership thesis is proposed:
H1: Servant leadership has a significant effect on
Servant leadership provides a framework that employee motivation at the Surabaya City
encourages many individuals to be able to provide Government.
assistance in improving the way of treating other
parties who work in various organizations. Servant Kaminska (2016) showed a positive relationship
leadership is a leadership model that tries to simul- between servant leadership and positive work results,
taneously increase employee personal growth and such as job autonomy and job satisfaction. Muhtasom,
improve organizational service quality through a Mus, Bijang, and Latief (2017) and Dalimunthe (2002)
combination of teamwork and community develop- concluded that leadership style affected employee
ment, personal involvement in the decision-making performance. Sihombing, Astuti, Al Musadieq,
process, and caring and ethical behavior (Sedarmayan- Hamied, and Rahardjo (2018), Yumte, Rante, Ron-
ti, 2017). sumbre, and Ratang (2017), Muafi and Azim (2019),
The characteristics of servant leadership are and Goh and Low (2014) showed that servant
(Patterson & Purkey, 1993): leadership had an effect on employee performance.
- Love: Leaders do something good for the right Eliyana, Ma’arif, and Muzakki (2019) proved that
reasons at the right time; transformational leadership could not have a direct
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impact on performance. Chinomona, Mashiloane, and compared to other activities, or simply obtaining
Pooe (2013) showed that servant leadership had a satisfaction from the busyness of one's own work.
positive effect on employee trust in leaders. Saleem, Behaviors such as being diligent, dedicated, respon-
Zhang, Gopinath, and Adeel (2020) showed that sible, careful, conscientious, careful, strong willingness
servant leadership strongly predicted affective trust and to learn their duties and obligations, and like to help
subordinate task performance. Based on this descrip- fellow employees.
tion, the following hypothesis is proposed: According to Robbins (2008), the factors that
H2: Servant leadership has a significant effect on influence work culture are: (1) innovation and taking
employee performance in the Surabaya City risks, (2) attention to detail, (3) results orientation, (4)
Government. human orientation, (5) team orientation, (6) aggres-
siveness, (7) stability. Al-Sada, Al -Esmael, and Faisal
Professionalism (2017), Virgana (2020), and Sugiarti et al. (2015)
stated that work culture affects employee behavior and
Professionalism is the basic ability of someone motivation. This means that employees who are highly
who has special expertise in certain fields in carrying motivated will try their best to carry out their duties and
out their duties and obligations with a full sense of responsibilities. So it is necessary to apply a work
responsibility. Professionalism is to provide services in culture that functions as an element that can affect the
accordance with the field of knowledge that is owned effectiveness and stimulate employee motivation to
and fully humane without considering personal achieve work goals. Based on this description, the
interests respecting clients as respecting oneself following hypothesis is proposed:
(Purwandari, 2008). Meanwhile, Siagian (2013) stated H4: Work culture has a significant effect on employee
that professionalism was measured in terms of its motivation in the Surabaya City Government.
speed in carrying out functions and refered to sim-
plified procedures. Several elements to build professio- Baker (2002) stated that organizational
nalism, namely: systems approach, carrying out ethical effectiveness has increasingly emphasized the
business practices, development of professional ethics, importance of culture in motivating and maximizing
enforcement through the application of sanctions by asset value. Sugiarti et al. (2015) showed that work
professional associations, government policy in the culture and work motivation have an effect on
system, exemplary. employee performance. Kotter and Heskett (1997)
Permanasari, Setyaningrum, and Sundari (2014) showed that community culture has a strong impact on
showed a relationship between professionalism and community work performance. Community culture
performance, and there was a relationship between will increase the success or failure of performance.
worker motivation and performance. Shishigu (2015) Arianto (2013) proved the influence of work culture in
stated that poor teacher motivation was due to very bad the performance of teaching staff. Sinha, Singh, Gupta,
salaries, apart from salaries and allowances. Low and Dutt (2010) also proved the influence of work
teacher motivation was due to the inability of school culture on motivation and performance. Based on this
management and administration to effectively met description, the following hypothesis is proposed:
teacher demands for supportive and fair leadership. H5: Work culture has a significant effect on employee
Matheus (2018) and Popescu, Bulei, and Mihalcioiu performance in the Surabaya City Government.
(2014) proved a significant correlation between pro-
fessional identity and motivation. Based on this Motivation
description, the following hypothesis is proposed:
H3: Professionalism has a significant effect on em- Motivation is a process and force that creates
ployee motivation in the Surabaya City Govern- excitement for an employee and injects satisfaction for
ment. an individual with in his organization (Terry, 2003).
Motivation is a process as the initial step for someone
Work Culture to take action due to physical and psychological
deficiencies, or in other words, an encouragement that
Work culture can be defined as a combination of is shown to fulfill certain goals. According to Gibson
the basic ideas of mental programs used in improving (2013), motivation theory consisted of content theories
organizational cooperation and work efficiency that focused on factors in people that reinforced,
(Ndraha, 2012). Work culture can be divided into: directed, supported, and stopped the behavior.
Attitudes towards work, namely a liking for work Meanwhile process theory describes and analyzes how
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behavior is strengthened, directed, supported, and Research Methods

stopped. Both of these categories have an impor-
tant influence on managers to motivate employees. This research is a causal research. The study
Giving attention, providing appropriate rewards, and population was employees of the Surabaya City
providing promotions for employees who excel can government, East Java. The analysis technique uses
also motivate employees. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) analysis with
McClelland (1987) argued that employees had the help of Amos 24 software. Estimation uses
potential energy reserves. This energy is utilized by Generalized Least Square Estimation, and the number
employees because it is driven by the motivational of samples studied is 290 respondents, obtained from
power and basic needs involved, the hope of success, (28 + 1) x 10 research indicators, in accordance with
and the incentive value attached to the goal. the provisions of SEM (Hair, Anderson, Tatham, &
McClelland categorizes three human needs that can Black, 2014). This study took samples using the
motivate a person's passion for work, namely: Need for convenience sampling method.
Achievement; Need for Affiliation, and Need for The study used a questionnaire instrument where
Power. A person is considered to have the motivation servant leadership uses seven indicators adopted from
to excel if he has the desire to do a job that is better than Sedarmayanti (2017), Professionalism uses six indi-
the achievements of other people's work. Thus, if cators adopted from Purwandari (2008), Work culture
someone's needs are very strong, then the impact is that uses six indica-tors adopted from Robbins (2008),
the person will feel motivated to achieve those needs. Motivation uses three indicators adopted from
Therefore, leaders must have a deep understanding of McClelland (1987), and employee performance using
the wants and needs of employees. Purwanta and six indicators adopted from Robbins (2008).
Nawangsari (2018) and Arofiq (2020) defined motiva-
tion was primarily concerned with goal-directed Results and Discussion
behavior. Therefore, satisfaction and motivation are
Descriptive data analysis of 290 respondents
related. Based on this description, the following hypo-
showed the following results: Characteristics of res-
thesis is proposed:
pondents according to gender showed that male
H6: Motivation has a significant effect on employee
respondents were 60.7%, and female respondents were
performance in the Surabaya City Government.
39.3%. Characteristics of respondents based on age
indicate that respondents aged 17–30 years are 26.3%.
Research Framework
The dominant respondent in the age range 31–40 years
was 53.7%. The education level of the majority of
Based on the literature review and discussion
respondents was undergraduate as much as 51.0%,
previously described, a research framework can be
diploma education as much as 40.0%, and high school
developed that explains the relationship between
education as much as 9.0%. Employee tenure is in the
research variables. Figure 1 illustrates the relationship
range of 1–2 years as much as 23.1%, less than one
between servant leadership, professionalism, work
year, 7.6%, 3–5 years, 29.3%, and more than five years
culture, and motivation on employee performance in
as much as 40.0%.
the city government of Surabaya, East Java.
Table 1
Characteristics of respondents (N = 290)
Characteristics Frequency Percent
Gender Men 176 60.7
Women 114 39.3
Age (years) 17-30 76 26.3
31-40 156 53.7
41-58 58 20.0
Level of High school 26 9.0
education Diploma 116 40.0
College 148 51.0
Graduate
Employee less than 1 22 7.6
Tenure (years) 1–2 67 23.1
3–5 85 29.3
Figure 1. Research framework more than 5 116 40.0
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Instrument Validity and Reliability Test Table 3

Confirmatory Factor Analysis
From the results of the Pearson correlation it is Loading Probabi
known that all the items in the questionnaire have a Relationship C. R.
Factor () lity
significant correlation at an alpha of 5%, so it can be SER  SER1 2.000 0.676 0.000
said that all question items are valid. The Cronbach SER  SER2 3.603 0.552 0.000
alpha (α) test shows that all research variables are SER  SER3 7.711 0.699 0.000
reliable, because all the alpha coefficient values of each SER  SER4 6.040 0.518 0.000
research variable are greater than the standard (0.6), so SER  SER5 3.983 0.534 0.000
that each question item on the measurement instrument SER  SER6 3.824 0.554 0.000
SER  SER7 3.953 0.508 0.000
can be used. The total corrected item correlation value
of all question items is greater than 0.3. PRO  PRO1 2.000 0.508 0.000
PRO  PRO2 8.618 0.853 0.000
Table 2 PRO  PRO3 7.711 0.725 0.000
Validity and Reliability Test PRO  PRO4 6.042 0.463 0.000
Research Pearson Coefficient PRO  PRO5 7.557 0.655 0.000
Variables
Indicator
correlation Alpha () PRO  PRO6 7.805 0.728 0.000
Servant leadership SER1 0.800** 0.800 BUD  BUD1 2.000 0.884 0.000
SER2 0.650** BUD  BUD2 13.717 0.746 0.000
SER3 0.808** BUD  BUD3 7.711 0.740 0.000
SER4 0.667** BUD  BUD4 10.451 0.610 0.000
SER5 0.793** BUD  BUD5 13.627 0.461 0.000
SER6 0.744** BUD  BUD6 2.704 0.778 0.000
Professionality SER7 0.609**
PRO1 0.711** 0.711 MOV  MOV1 2.000 0.610 0.000
PRO2 0.667** MOV  MOV2 5.815 0.884 0.000
PRO3 0.879** MOV  MOV3 9.550 0.746 0.000
PRO4 0.657** KIN  KIN1 2.000 0.478 0.000
PRO5 0.707** KIN  KIN2 2.263 0.796 0.000
Work Culture PRO6 0.832** KIN  KIN3 2.900 0.740 0.000
BUD1 0.717** 0.893 KIN  KIN4 2.875 0.664 0.000
BUD2 0.710** KIN  KIN5 2.657 0.524 0.000
BUD3 0.812** KIN  KIN6 2.590 0.778 0.000
BUD4 0.721** SER: Servant Leadership, PRO: Professionality, CUL: Work
BUD5 0.677** Culture, MOT: Motivation, EMP: Employee Performance, CR:
Motivation BUD6 0.877** Critcal Ratio, P: Probability.
MOV1 0.757** 0.744
MOV2 0.727** Goodness of Fit Test
Employee MOV3 0.822**
Performance KIN1 0.718** 0.782 The results of data processing using a sample of
KIN2 0.816**
KIN3 0.723** 290 shows that the Chi-square is 257,532 with a
KIN4 0.679** probability of 0.051. Meanwhile, GFI, AGFI, TLI,
KIN5 0.878** CFI, RMSEA and CMIN / DF respectively 0.913,
KIN6 0.772** 0.904, 0.951, 0.953, and 0.068 are all in the acceptable
**. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed). value ranges.
Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Table 3 shows the overall results of the con-

firmatory factor analysis of the research measurement
model. The validity and reliability of constructs are two
tests to evaluate the ability of the measured variable
(manifest) to form latent variables, in the table below
all manifest has a loading factor with a probability of
less than 0.05, meaning that it is significant in forming
latent variables. It can also be seen that each latent
variable has a construct critical ratio of more than 0.2,
which means that it comes from one dimension (unidi-
mensional). Figure 2. Coefficient of research model path
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Hypothesis testing of motivation. This shows that employee motivation is

very important to be able to improve employee
Hypothesis testing is carried out based on the performance. Therefore, the leadership of the organi-
estimated value of the significance of the research zation should increase employee motivation. So that
model parameters shown in Table 4. employees have the desire to do a work that has a better
performance than the achievements of other people's
Table 4 work. Employees also need affiliation and a need for
Hypothesis Testing power. These three needs prove to be very important
Relationship Coefficient C.R. P Decision elements in determining one's performance. Thus, if
SER MOT 0.224 2.092 0.000 accepted the need for employees is very strong, then the impact
SER EMP 0.460 4.433 0.000 accepted is that the employee will feel motivated to achieve their
PRO MOT 0.586 5.094 0.000 accepted needs. Therefore, leaders must have a deep under-
CUL MOT 0.499 4.147 0.000 accepted standing of the wants and needs of employees.
CUL EMP 0.315 2.272 0.006 accepted
MOT EMP 0.898 8.691 0.000 accepted Table 5
Relationship between Variables
The results of the study are in accordance with the
Direct Indirect Total
findings of Rahayuningsih (2012) and Permanasari et Relationship
Effects Effects Effects
al. (2014). Work culture has a significant effect on SER MOT 0.224 0.000 0.224
employee motivation in the Surabaya City Govern- SER EMP 0.460 0.221 0.681
ment. This shows that a high work culture will PRO MOT 0.586 0.000 0.586
encourage employee motivation to increase. A work PRO EMP 0.000 0.579 0.579
culture consisting of innovation and taking risks, CUL MOT 0.499 0.000 0.499
attention to details, results orientation, human orien- CUL EMP 0.315 0.493 0.808
tation, team orientation, aggressiveness, and stability, MOT EMP 0.898 0.000 0.898
if implemented properly and always improved, em-
ployee motivation will increase. The results of the The results of statistical analysis in Table 5 show
study are in accordance with the findings of Giantari that there is an indirect relationship between servant
and Riana (2017) and Sinha et al. (2010). Work culture leadership, professionality, work culture variables and
has a significant effect on employee performance in the employee performance variables. This proves that
Surabaya City Government. This shows that with a employee motivation is a good moderator variable
high work culture, it will encourage increased between servant leadership, professionality, work
employee performance. The results of the study are in culture and employee performance in the Surabaya city
accordance with the findings of Sugiarti et al. (2015) government, East Java.
and Sinha et al. (2010). Work motivation has a signi-
ficant effect on employee performance. This shows Conclusions and Suggestions
that high work motivation will encourage employee
performance in the Surabaya City Government, East The results of the study prove that the variables
Java. The results of the study are in accordance with servant leadership, professional, and work culture has
the findings of Sugiarti et al. (2015) and Permanasari an effect on motivation, and variables servant leader-
et al. (2014). ship, work culture, and motivation have an effect on
Of the three variables (servant leadership, pro- employee performance. The results of the study have
fessionalism, and work culture), which are hypothe- proven that employee motivation is a good mediating
sized to affect motivation, the dominant one is the variable in the relationship between servant leadership,
value of professionalism. This shows that the propor- professional, and work culture variables on employee
tionality of employees is very important to be able to performance. It also proves that proportionality is the
increase employee motivation. Therefore, the leader- dominant variable that affects employee motivation.
ship of the organization should increase the propor- The research implication is that leaders can
tionality of employees, so that employees have the motivate subordinates, especially in relation to beha-
necessary knowledge in carrying out their duties, have vior directed at organizational goals. This can be done
the necessary skills, and always behave professionally. by providing appropriate and fair rewards, as well as
Of the three variables (servant leadership, work cul- providing promotions for high performing employees.
ture, and motivation), which are hypothesized to affect Further research is suggested to examine further the
employee performance, the dominant one is the value effect of servant leadership, professionalism, work
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