Abstract

The purpose of this research is to find out the influence of leadership and job competence on the performance of the state civil apparatus and its impact on the success of organizational performance in realizing the vision and mission of the Regent of South Aceh with organizational culture as its moderation. The population consists of 243 structural officials of echelons III and IV in 14 Regional Organizations in South Aceh Regency, with a sample of 175 respondents, respondents of each OPD were selected by proportional random sampling method. Data analysis uses SPSS and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with AMOS applications. The results of the study found that the conditions of leadership, job competence, ASN performance, organizational performance, and organizational culture were good, leadership does not affect the performance of ASN, job competence has a positive and significant effect on ASN performance, leadership and ASN performance have a positive and significant effect on organizational performance in realizing the vision and mission of the Regent of South Aceh, job competence does not affecton the organization performance in realizing the vision and mission of the Regent of South Aceh, leadership does not affecton organizational performance through AS performance, job competence has a significant effect on organizational performance through ASN performance, and organizational culture does not moderate the influence of leadership on ASN performance. So the model for improving organizational performance in the local government of South Aceh Regency turned out to be a function of strengthening leadership which can directly have an impact, and increasing job competence with indirect impacts through ASN performance. The newness of the study lays in the addition of organizational culture moderation variable among leadership variables to ASN performance.