Influence of Authentic Leadership on Employee Performance: Ethical Climate as a Moderating Variable

Abstract

In the environment of State Universities in the City of Bandar Lampung, the ethical climate is a major concern considering the duties and obligations of institutions that are bound to ethics. The existence of ethical weaknesses in each State University can lead to weaknesses, namely the lack of high level of authentic leadership as it will arise that only leaders with the mind, not with the heart, causing a lack of communication between staff and leaders with procedures that are still not right and a lack of focus results, causing a lot of less work to be completed on time. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of authentic leadership on employee performance. The effect of ethical climate as a moderating variable, this study used the Multiple Regression Analysis (MRA) analysis tool. The empirical findings obtained are that authentic leadership has a significant positive effect on employee performance and an ethical climate that is not met moderates the effect of authentic leadership on employee performance. Some things are suggested in order to consider all options and counter views before taking a series of actions with good planning thinking and discussing openly, focusing on others is expected to increase awareness around ethics according to morality and honesty, especially superiors so that they can set an exemplary role model or role model for subordinates, as well as increasing responsibility and creating order to others so that it can run well. The entire population of State Universities is 1650 employees, with a sample of 174 respondents came from employees at State Universities in Bandar Lampung City. The data collection used is by distributing questionnaires. Based on the results of Multiple Regression Analysis, it is known that the sig values of the Authentic Leadership variables (X), Ethical Climate (M) are sig values of 0.900, a significant level of > 0.05 indicates that authentic leadership, if moderated by an ethical climate, does not have a positive and significant effect on employee performance.