The Role of Employees Job Satisfaction in the Relationship between Transformational Leadership and Affective Commitment at Roof-Tile Manufacturing Company

Tri Widarmanti, Arif Partono Prasetio, Bachruddin Saleh Luturlean

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Human resources play a strategic and important role to achieve company's vision and mission, the quality of human resources will affect the performance and progress of an organization. Commitment is very important for organization, a strong affective commitment encourages employees to contribute better, there are constructive factors of affective commitment such as transformational leadership and job satisfaction. This study wants to examine the relationship between transformational leadership, affective commitment, and job satisfaction and the effect of transformational leadership practices on affective commitment directly and indirectly through the mediating role of job satisfaction in tile rooftop manufacturers at Jatiwangi Indonesia. A quantitative survey approach has been used, and 5 hypotheses were tested with a sample 184 of 350 employees of roof-tile manufactures was selected to answer the questionnaire. Data collected based on descriptive analytics processed by SPSS Software, and the result of this study show that there is a positive relationship between these variables, transformational leadership significant positive relations to job satisfaction and affective commitment and job satisfaction becomes a partial mediator variable in the relationship between transformational leadership with affective commitment, but yet those 4 company still not represent all roof-tile company in Indonesia, future studies could replicate the current one by collecting data from different sources.

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