The Role of Team Empowerment in Mediating The Effect of Transformational Leadership toward Employee Performance

This research was conducted to find out and build the concept of transformational leadership on employee performance, both directly and through team empowerment. Researchers involved 252 respondents who were civil servants in the Office of Education and Sports in Gorontalo Province- Indonesia. The questionnaire was the data collection instruments. The data itself is processed by the Path method with SPSS analysis. Based on the results of the analysis, the researchers have found that the indirect effect of transformational leadership on employee performance is more significant than that of direct influencers. The findings of this study also found that team empowerment can mediate the effect of leadership on employee performance.