Investigating the Role Transformational Leadership, Innovative Work Behavior, and Team Member Exchange on Public Service Organization Performance
Authors: Yusuf Muhammad , Bernardianto Raden Biroum , Satia Haji Muhammad Riban , Nurhasanah Nurhasanah , Irwani Irwani , Setyoko Paulus Israwan , Saputra Anggara Setya 
Published: September 2023

Purpose: This study aims to analyze the effect of transformational leadership on performance in public service organizations, analyze the relationship between innovative work behavior and performance and analyze the exchange of team members on performance in public service organizations.

Theoretical framework: The foundation for building a theoretical framework is Leader-member exchange is a specific approach that is used to develop leadership relationships between the leaders of an organization and its members with various kinds of actions that organizational leaders can take based on their exchanges and interactions such as providing high dedication and education to members with the aim of establishing relationships. public sector policy innovation emphasizes organizational capacity to create conceptual ideas and implement them in a policy action or simply public sector innovation involves the creation, development and application of practical ideas to achieve benefits to the public. Transformational Public Sector Leadership is a leadership model that has advantages in restoring, maintaining and building public trust in the government. So that transformational leadership is more suitable for public sector leadership models

Methods: This research method is a quantitative survey, research data obtained by distributing questionnaires online to 765 employees of public service organizations. Data analysis used a structural equation model (SEM) with SmartPLS 3.0 software. The stages of data analysis are validity, reliability and significance tests. The sampling technique used is non-probability sampling. The questionnaire used in this study uses a Google form which will be distributed to respondents. This questionnaire measurement method uses a Likert scale of 5, namely Strongly Disagree (STS), (2) Disagree Answers (TS), (3) Neutral Answers (N), (4) Agree Answers (S), Strongly Agree (SS) The independent variables used in this study are as follows: transformational leadership, innovative work behavior, exchange of team members. The dependent variable used in this research is performance.

Results and conclusions: The results of this study are that transformational leadership has a positive and significant effect on performance, innovative work behavior has a significant positive effect on performance, exchange of team members has a positive and significant effect on the performance of public service organizations.

Finding implication: The results of this study have theoretical implications, namely strengthening the theory that transformational leadership, innovative work behavior, and team member exchange have a positive and significant contribution to public service organization performance. The practical implication of this research is to improve performance, the management of public service organizations encourages transformational leadership, innovative work behavior, and team member exchange.

Uniqueness/value: The novelty of this research is the relationship model of transformational leadership, innovative work behavior, and team member exchange on public service organization performance which has never been analyzed by previous studies.