Role of Meaningful Work and Self-Leadership on Learning Culture and Adaptive Performance : A Mediated Moderated Model
Abstract
The purposed of this study was to examine the role of meaningful work as a mediation between learning culture and adaptive performance relationship, and also considering self-leadership as a moderation between meaningful work and adaptive performance correlation on startup employee. This research is a quantitative study with questionnaire as a data collection tool. Data were collected using purposive sampling which obtained 321 respondents. The result of this study is partial mediation which explain that meaningful work are significant to mediating the relationship between learning culture and adaptive performance. However, self-leadership has a significant effect as a moderation only at low and medium level.
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