<![CDATA[ABSTRACT The right leadership style is expected to be one of the factors to improve the fact of the low performance of the government apparatus, especially with the timeliness problem. Firm leaders with an appropriate leadership style are expected to improve the performance of civil servants. The purposenof thisystudy is tokdetermine thekeffect ofyleadership style onkemployeemperformance at the Department of Education Youth and Sports Denpasar. The research method used is quantitative method with the intention to seek the influence ofkleadership style (variablemX) on employee performancek(variablemY) Youth Education Office and Sports Denpasar with using correlation approach. Primary datakin thismstudy was obtainedmthrough thekdistribution ofmquestionnaires to 103 employees of the Office of Education Youth and Sports City of Denpasar. Theffresult ofmthis researchkshows thatkleadership stylekhave a positivemeffectkon the performance of the employees of Denpasar Youth and Sports Education Department with R2 result of 0,715, which means that employee performance is influenced by leadership style equal to 71,5%. The result of simple linear regression calculation shows that every improvement of leadership style of Denpasar Youth and Sporty Education Office is 1%, then employee performance will increase by 86,6%. Based on result of significance test obtained tcount equal to 11,093 bigger than ttabel (2,007) with significance level 0,000, meaning that leadership style have positive and significant influence to performance of employee of Education Officemof Youthmand Sportsmof DenpasarmCity. Keywords: Leadership Style, Employee Performance, Youth Education and Sport Office Denpasar City]]>
