The Influence of Leadership on the Performance of State Civil Services through Work Motivation and Satisfaction

This study aims to determine the effect of leadership on employee performance through work motivation and job satisfaction at the Secretariat of the Takalar Region Representative Council. Data collection was carried out at the Secretariat of the Takalar Region Representative Council. The study applies saturated samples so that the number of samples was 49 respondents. Data were analyzed using the path analysis method. The results showed that leadership has a positive and significant effect on work motivation and job satisfaction, but an insignificant effect on employee performance. Work motivation has a positive and significant effect on employee performance; Job satisfaction has a positive and significant effect on employee performance. Leadership through both work motivation and job satisfaction show a significant effect on employee performance.

The Effect of Financial Compensation and Work Pressure on Employees’ Performance through Job Satisfaction

This study aims to examine and analyze the effect of financial compensation and work pressure on the performance of employees through job satisfaction in DGT Regional office of South, West and South-East Sulawesi. Data was collected by a survey method, using questionnaire instruments created by Google Form platform and distributed to all civil servants of DGT Regional office of South, West and South-East Sulawesi and are grouped into five clusters. Of the 1,701 employee population, there were 352 employees who responded. Data is then analyzed using the Structural Equation Model (SEM) with the help of the SPSS AMOS application. The results showed that financial compensation and work pressure have a significant positive effect on job satisfaction. Interestingly, both variables, financial compensation and work pressure, did not show a significant effect on employees’ performance. Job satisfaction has a significant positive effect on employees’ performance.

Effectiveness and Efficiency Analysis of Mucipal Tax Revenue and Its Contribution toward Locally Generated Revenue in Sidereng Rappang District

The purpose of this research is to analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of the municipal tax revenues and their contribution towards original local government revenue in Sidenreng Rappang district. The study applied the descriptive quantitative method. The data obtained from the municipal tax revenues district and the budget realization report of Sidenreng Rappang district from the period between 2014 and 2019. This research uses the method of effectiveness and efficiency ratio to calculate local tax, local tax realization, local tax fees, local tax target, and local tax contribution. The result in this research indicates that local tax revenues in Sidenreng Rappang district during the period of 2014 are already effective. The annual local tax revenues are very effective. Interestingly, the contribution of local taxes towards original local government revenue in Sidenreng Rappang district is found still very low.

Effect of Organizational Culture and Organizational Strategy towards Organizational Effectiveness with Knowledge Management as an Intervening Variable

Organizational effectiveness is the level of organizational success in an effort to achieve its goals and objectives. This study aims to analyze the direct influence of organizational culture and strategy on organizational effectiveness and indirect influence mediated by knowledge management at PT PLN (Persero) UPT Makassar. This research is a quantitative research using data collection method through questionnaires continued by data analysis method using PLS analysis. The results of this study found that first, the organizational culture and strategy have a positive and significant effect on knowledge management and organizational effectiveness. Second, knowledge management has a positive and significant effect on organizational effectiveness. The last is knowledge management can partially mediate between organizational culture and strategy on organizational effectiveness at PT. PLN (Persero) UPT in Makassar.

Factor Affecting Business Performance and Competitive Advantages in Modern Retail Strore in Makassar City

This study aims to analyze the factors affecting business performance and competitive advantages in modern retail stores in Makassar City. The purposive sampling method was used by selecting 100 respondents who privately own a modern retail store for more than 5 years. Data were analyzed using path analysis in SPSS 21 Programs. The results found that competitive advantages had a positive and significant effect on variable market orientation, marketplace innovation, and entrepreneurial orientation factors in modern retail stores in Makassar City. Market orientation and entrepreneurial orientation are also found to impact business performance. In this study, competitive advantage can mediate the effect of market orientation and market place innovation on business performance

Analysis of Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use to the Actual System Usage through Attitude Using Online Guidance Application

This study aims to analyze the effect of perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use on actual system usage through attitude toward using the Ruangguru online learning guidance application in Makassar City. This study took data directly from students who subscribed to the Ruangguru application by taking 247 high school students and their equivalent as samples in this study. To implement the objectives of this study used analysis techniques using path analysis. The results of the analysis prove that perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use have a positive and significant effect on attitude toward using the Ruangguru online tutoring application. Meanwhile, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and attitude toward using have a positive and significant effect on actual system usage in the Ruangguru online tutoring application. Based on the results of the single test, attitude toward using is able to mediate the effect of perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use on actual usage in the Ruangguru online tutoring application.

The Role of Product Innovation in Mediating the Entrepreneurial Competence and Motivation on the Performance of Packaged Food MSMEs

This study aims to analyze the influence of entrepreneurial competence and entrepreneurial motivation on the performance of packaged food MSME actors through the innovative products in Mamuju Regency. This research was conducted using quantitative data, while the data collection techniques were observation, questionnaires, and interviews. The sampling technique used in this study was sampling with a saturated sampling method where the researcher used all members of the population totaling 70 business actors. Data testing is done by using validity, reliability, and hypothesis testing. The data obtained were analyzed by descriptive analysis and path analysis. The results showed that entrepreneurial competence and entrepreneurial motivation had a positive and significant effect on innovative products. Entrepreneurial competence, entrepreneurial motivation, and innovation products had a positive and significant effect on the performance of packaged food MSME. Entrepreneurial competence and entrepreneurial motivation through innovation products have an indirect effect on the performance of packaged food MSME actors in Mamuju Regency.

The Effect of Additional Employee Income and Work Environment on The Performance of Civil Servants through Work Motivation

This study aims to find out the influence of the additional employee income and the work environment on the performance of civil servants through work motivation in the Regional Secretariat of Gowa District. Data collection is carried out by civil servants assigned in the Secretariat Office of Gowa District. Of 127 population, as many as 96 respondents are taken using the Slovin technique. On the basis of findings, the results showed that the additional employee income and the work environment have a positive and significant effect on work motivation. Further, the additional employee income and the work environment have a positive and significant effect on employee performance. Work motivation has a positive and significant effect on employee performance. Interestingly, work motivation is unable to mediate the relationship between additional employee income and employee performance. However, the work motivation can mediate the relationship between the work environment and the employee performance at the Gowa District Secretariat Office.

The Effect of Good Corporate Governance on Firm Value with Earnings Quality as A Moderated Variables

Corporate governance is a concept to improve management performance by monitoring to ensure management accountability to shareholders. Besides being able to reduce agency conflicts, corporate governance is also capable of creating added value for interested parties (stakeholders) in the form of effective protection, especially for investors in recovering their investment fairly and of high value. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of managerial ownership, institutional ownership, and audit committee on firm value, and to analyze whether earnings quality can moderate the influence of managerial ownership, institutional ownership, and audit committee on firm value in banking companies listed on the IDX in 2017 -2019. The research population is banking companies listed on the IDX, with a purposive sampling technique, a total of 9 samples were obtained with the observation period 2017 to 2019. Data collection is through documentation obtained from the official website of the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). Meanwhile, the data analysis technique used classical assumption test, multiple regression analysis, and moderated analysis. The results of the study found that managerial ownership and institutional ownership have a positive and significant effect on firm value. The audit committee has a negative and insignificant effect on firm value. Earnings quality cannot moderate the effect of managerial ownership, institutional ownership, and audit committee on firm value.

The Effect of Sukuk Issuance on Price Reaction and Growth of Sharia Capital Market

This study aims to analyze the effect of the value of Sukuk, Sukuk rating, and risk of Sukuk on the growth of the Islamic capital market mediated by Sukuk price during the period of 2014-2019 using value at risk. This study uses secondary data obtained from the Indonesia Stock Exchange and The Indonesian Capital Market Institute. Data were analyzed using the SPSS statistical program with path analysis techniques. The results of this study indicate that the variable value of Sukuk and the rating of Sukuk have a positive and significant effect on the price reaction of Sukuk, while the risk variable of Sukuk shown a negative and significant score. The variable value of Sukuk has a positive and significant effect on the reaction to the growth of the Islamic capital market, while negative and significant results are indicated by the variable rating of Sukuk and the risk variable of Sukuk. The Sukuk price reaction variables have a positive and significant effect on the reaction to the growth of the Islamic capital market. Interestingly, the study found that the Sukuk price reaction variable is unable to mediate the relationship between the value of Sukuk and the growth reaction of the Islamic capital market. This mediation result is also the same for the Sukuk rating and Sukuk risk.