The Effect of Leadership, Competence, Compensation on Work Motivation and its Implication on Private Lecturer’s Performance in Palembang

The purpose of this study is to figure out the performance of the private lecturers in Palembang South Sumatera by the factor of leadership, competence, and compensation on work motivation and its implication on lecturer performance. This study uses confirmatory research method with 250 lecturers as respondents. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is used in analyzing data. The result shows that exogenous variable significantly affects endogenous variable both partially and simultaneously. The simultaneous test performed on leadership, competence, and compensation variable positively and significantly affect the lecturer’s performance. Next, leadership, competence, compensation, and motivation also variable positively and significantly affect the lecturer’s performance. Another finding shows that partially compensation doesn’t affect the lecturer performance. It is figured out from each exogenous variable studied that the improvement of the lecturer performance on research dimension and followed by work motivation on power need dimension is necessary to improve the performance of private lecturers in South Sumatera. This study concludes that leadership, competence, compensation, and motivation are very necessary for improving performance by noticing the work motivation factor as the intervening variable