THE INFLUENCE OF TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP TO EMPLOYEE JOB MOTIVATION AND SATISFACTION IN JAKARTA STOCK EXCHANGE

Abstract

Leaders’ behavior is one of the important factors in an organization or corporation. Understanding an appropriate leadership style and ability to give right motivation are an important asset for a leader to support employee job satisfaction that will cause a positive impact for the performance of a corporation. The purpose of this research was to describe the influence of transactional leadership to work motivation and satisfaction of the employee in a public corporation, it is Jakarta Stock Exchange. The research method used quantitative approach. While the population sampling was all employee in the Office of Jakarta Stock Exchange. Multiple Linear Regression Analysis was used to analyze the influence of transactional leadership style to the employee job motivation and satisfaction. The result showed that transactional leadership style which apply transaction between good performance and appreciation to employee can improve work satisfaction among them particularly when the leader can motivate them optimum.