Leadership Behavior, Single and Double Loop Model toward Employee Performance at the Learning Distance Unit

Abstract

—In an effort to optimize distance learning, it is required by the employees of the distance learning program unit to create the need for the education. In its development, the employee quantity aspect should be balanced with the demands of quality to achieve the superiority of the college. Increasing the capability of human re-sources in an organization can be done with organizational transformation to become a learning organization or learning organization. Furthermore, leadership is a very important aspect in realizing an effective organization. This study aims to determine how the behavior of leadership and learning models on employee performance. The research method applied is a quantitative approach, with a population of all academic and nonacademic staff in the Distance Learning Program Unit. The results of this study indicate that there is a positive and significant influence on leadership behavior on employee performance. Furthermore, there is a positive and significant influence on the organizational learning model on employee performance. The behavior of leaders and models of learning organizations together to the performance of employees. Thus the organizational learning model either single loop or double loop together with the leader's behavior has an effect on the performance of the employees of the Open University Distance Learning Program Unit.