The Performance of Islamic Banks in Terms of Transformational Leadership Style and Work Motivation as a Moderating Variable

The purpose of this study is to study and analyze the impact of transformational leadership style on
the performance of Islamic banks, using job motivation as an intermediate variable. Achieving the
goals of Islamic banking organizations and individuals and unit members at the same time is a top
priority for leaders. The leader can influence his followers, and their executors need to execute orders
without using coercive means. In this way, subordinates can voluntarily follow the requirements of the
organization and perform their duties by recommending leaders. Transformational leaders are not
only aware of the needs of their subordinates, but they are also trying to increase the needs of lower
levels to those of existing levels. The sample for this study was an Islamic Bank employee on South
Sulawesi. The significance of the repeated measures t test for analyzing the data was determined by
p <0.05. The results show that transformational leadership styles have a significant impact on job
motivation. Transformational leadership styles have no significant impact on the performance of
Islamic banks. There was no significant impact on the motivation of Islamic Banks