The Effect of Empowering Leadership, Job Demand, Job Crafting on Employee Performance and Well-Being as Mediation Variables

This research is motivated by the refinement of previous research, in particular to analyze the effects of empowering leadership, job demand and job crafting applied to the capacity of employees with well-being which will be the mediating variable. This scientific paper uses a quantitative approach, data is collected through questionnaires distributed and observations in the company. Data processing began by distributing questionnaires to 128 employees. The data of this scientific paper was processed with the SEM-PLS (Partial Least Square) application to test and find out all the research hypotheses. Research results prove that: 1) Empowering leadership is very influential on well-being; 2) Job demand is very influential on well-being; 3) Job crafting is very influential on well-being; 4) Empowering leadership is very influential on employee performance; 5) Job demand is very influential on employee performance; 6) Job crafting is very influential on employee performance; 7) well-being is very influential on employee performance; 8) empowering leadership is very influential on employee performance mediated by well-being; 9) job demand is very influential on employee performance with well-being mediation; 10) job crafting has a positive and insignificant effect on employee performance through well-being mediation. Originality/value: This study really fulfills several identified needs to review how employee development efforts, increase employee innovation and creativity and optimize employees to work according to their passion and how to motivate employees based on the influence of empowering leadership, job demand and job crafting on performance through wellbeing mediation