Effect of Leadership on the Job Satisfaction with Organizational Commitment and Trust in Leader as Mediators

The Objectives of this study are to test: (1) whether leadership affects organizational commitment; (2) whether organizational commitment affects employee’s job satisfaction, (3) whether leadership affects trust, (4) whether trust affects job satisfaction, (5) whether trust mediates the effect of leadership on job satisfaction, (6) whether organizational commitment mediates the effect of leadership on job satisfaction, and (7) whether leadership has an effect on job satisfaction. The objects in this study were all (190) the employees of the limited liability company of PT. Ambassador Garmindo. Census sampling technique was employed to determine its samples. The data and hypotheses of the research were analyzed by using the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). The results of the research are as follows: (1) leadership affects employee’s organizational commitment (2) organizational commitment affects employee’s job satisfaction; (3) leadership affects trust in leader; (4) the trust in leader affects employee’s job satisfaction; (5) the trust in leader mediates the effect of leadership on employee’s job satisfaction, (6) organizational commitment mediates the effect of leadership on employee’s job satisfaction; (7) leadership has an effect on the employee’s job satisfaction at the limited liability company of PT Ambassador Garmindo. This paper contributes to the literature by providing an analysis of the mediating effects of organizational commitment and trust in leader on job satisfaction