DO ORGANIZATION CULTURE AND TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP MATTER FOR BETTER ACADEMIC STAFFS’ JOB PERFORMANCE? A LESSON FROM A TEACHING-ORIENTED UNIVERSITY

This study aims to explore the effects of organization culture and transformational leadership on lecturers’ job performance in a teaching-oriented university, whether job satisfaction appears as mediating variable or not. As a higher-education institution which has the principal responsibility to cultivate and prepare the students to be teachers for first and second tier education, the lecturers’ job performance will influence the quality of graduates. This study used 282 academic staffs as respondents and applied structural equation model (SEM) to analysis the data and test the hypotheses. It found that organizational culture played a significant role on job performance through job satisfaction as the mediating variable. Meanwhile, transformational leadership did not significantly influence job performance through job satisfaction. It implies that organizational culture becomes a major driver to improve lecturers’ job performance and other types of leadership could be alternatives.