Leadership Affects to Morale and Performance : A Case Study of Government Office

Abstract

           The purpose of this study is to the leadership affects to morale and performance at the Office of Strategic Police and study is to the relationship between leadership and morale in practice. The samples consisted of 169 police officers. Survey questionnaire is used as instrument for data collection. Descriptive statistics was used for data analysis and inferential statics used for hypothesis testing included t-test, One-way ANOVA, and Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient.

           The results revealed that leaderships of supervisors effect on the police officers at high level while overall work morale of the officers is at medium level. The results also revealed that directive, supportive, participative, and achievement-oriented leaderships are positively related to the work morale at lower-middle level in every aspect. Finally, the results illustrated that the polices with different gender, age, marital status, education, time, and rank have no different effect on work morale of the officers while the different level of education and work duration significantly affected on the work morale.