The determinants of employee performance with competence variable mediation

This research at understanding the effect of leadership, motivation, training, and performance mediated by competence. The multivariate analysis with descriptive and explanatorily-quantitative methods was used for this research. The research samples were 114 respondents with a proportional sampling method. Data was collected using a questionnaire instrument to be subsequently analyzed by Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) using a partial least square (PLS) approach. The research results indicated that: (1) Motivation and training have a significant effect on competence, and competence has a significant effect on performance; (2) Leadership has no significant effect on competence and performance. Likewise, motivation and training have no significant effect on performance; (3) As a mediator variable, competence is significantly able to mediate the influence of leadership, motivation, and training on performance; and (4) the strength value of the dependent variables of competence and employee performance is indicated by the results of the calculation of the square of the multiple correlations (R2) of 0,6435 and 0,7621, respectively.