Leadership, is an difficult skills to obtain by someone. A person can be at the top
of an organization but not necessarily being a great leader. This issue could carried
out multiple problems within the organization in vertical or horizontal ways. Their
sub-ordinates could sense and affected this problem directly from their leader.
Additionally, they could demotivate if the leader is not connected to them and
hence, could reduce the performace produce by the employee. In this case, the
emotional intelligent skills of the leader could help with this kind of problem. With
more connected leader, emotionally, it could create more stability and even boost
their sub-ordinate’s motivation and performance in reaching the company’s target.
In this case, this study is to give insight on the effect emotional leadership to
employee motivation and job performance. Additionally, employee motivation is
used as mediation variable between the emotional leadership and job performance.
Furthemore, it is conducted as a non-probability samping with purposive sampling
used and online questionnaire form as the medium and it is given to non-daily
workers. The data collection carried out with 5-point Likert’s scale and analysed
using single regression and multiple regression method, with SPSS 2.5, which also
used to the the validity and reliability analysis. The result from data analysis found
the significant and positive link between emotional leadership and employee
motivation, along with the link of employee motivation and job performance and
additionally, the link between emotional leadership and job performance.
Furthermore, employee motivation significantly mediates the emotional leadership and job performance.