The Effect of Transformational Leadership and Good Government Governance on ASN Work Motivation and Its Impact on Government Performance of South Aceh District

This study aims to test the transformational leadership and good government governance effect on civil servant (ASN) work motivation and their impact on South Aceh District Government Performance with the research object of echelon III and IV officials/functional officials in 18 Government departments of South Aceh District. The population in this study amounted to 336 people. The sample selection technique used is a proportionate stratified random sampling technique, which takes samples when the population has members/elements that are not homogeneous and proportionally stratified—at the same time, determining the number of pieces in this study using the Slovin formula to obtain a sample of 183 people. Data was collected by distributing questionnaires which were measured using a Likert scale. Data were analyzed using SPSS, SEM-AMOS, and Sobel calculator. The result shows that transformational leadership, good government governance, ASN motivation, and South Aceh District Government Performance are good; Transformational leadership affects ASN motivation in the South Aceh District; Good government governance affects ASN motivation in South Aceh District; Transformational leadership affects South Aceh District Government Performance; Good government governance does not South Aceh District Government Performance; ASN motivation affects South Aceh District Government Performance; ASN motivation does not mediate the transformational leadership effect on government performance, and; ASN motivation does not mediate the good government governance effect on government performance. These findings explain that the model for increasing institutional performance in the South Aceh District is a function of strengthening transformational leadership and ASN motivation, while the good government governance variable can only have an impact on motivated ASN.