Journal of Educational Management Research
Vol. 4 No. 6 (2025)

The Interplay of Leadership Style, Competence, and Work Stress in Shaping Employee Performance: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction

Anggraini, Lenny (Unknown)
Yuli Budiati (Unknown)
Hardani (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
13 Sep 2025

Abstract

The research conducted has the aim of examining the influence of Leadership Style, Competence, and Job Stress on Employee Performance and using job satisfaction as an intervening variable. This research includes the type of explanatory research, by distributing questionnaires in the form of open and closed questions to employees of Bank Muamalat Semarang as many as 60 people. And included in quantitative research.  The analysis technique used in this research is Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) with the SmartPLS approach. The sampling method uses the census method. The results of this study indicate that job satisfaction can mediate the relationship between leadership and employee performance with a P-value of 0.004 < 0.10. In addition, job satisfaction also significantly mediates the relationship between job stress and employee performance with a P-value of 0.001 < 0.10. Meanwhile, the competency variable cannot be mediated by job satisfaction, due to the lack of a direct influence between the competency variable and job satisfaction with a P-value of 0.584 > 0.10.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jemr

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Social Sciences

Description

Journal of Educational Management Research is an international peer-reviewed journal which publishes original and significant contributions to educational management, administration, and leadership, in its broadest sense, from all over the world. This includes primary research projects in schools ...