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The Role of Employee Engagement as Mediation between Human Resource Management and Leadership with Employee Performance in Developer Companies in the City of Batam

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Employee involvement usually affects human resources at company developers in Batam City. The research was carried out with the aim of knowing employee performance with employee engagement as a mediation which was influenced by the variables of (i) training and development; (ii) compensation and benefits; (iii) leadership, recruitment and selection; and (iv) awards and recognition. The sample for this research was employees of a developer company in Batam City, where the sample acquisition was 384 data. Furthermore, the processing of this sample data has been utilizing the SmartPLS 3.2.9 software. The test data obtained in this study, namely the direct test, showed that employee engagement was positively and significantly influenced by employee performance, and training and development, while compensation and benefits, leadership, recruitment and selection and reward and recognition were not. The direct test also shows that employee engagement is positively and significantly affected by employee performance, while the independent variable is not. The indirect test results through independent variables did not succeed in mediating employee engagement with employee performance.
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