Democratic Leadership

The author conducted of this research with the quantitative descriptive method, namely by giving questionnaires to employees of PT. Medan Industry Area (Persero) which is located at Jl. Batam Island No. 1, Sempali, Kec. Percut Sei Tuan Kab. Deli Serdang, North Sumatra. with the number of respondents as many as 40 people. The questionnaire made by the writer consisted of 18 statements, in which there were 2 variables, where the X variable consisted of 8 statements and the Y variable consisted of 10 statements. The characteristics of the respondents are the identities of the employees sampled by the authors. From the description of the characteristics that the author got at PT. Medan Industry Area (Persero). 

Table 1. Characteristics of respondents based on gender

Based on table 1, it can be seen that the number of respondents based on male gender is 19 people or 47.5% of respondents and based on female gender with a total of 21 or 52.5% of respondents. Who is an employee at PT. Medan Industry Area (Persero) which is the object of the author's research. 

Table 2. Characteristics of respondents based on division

Based on table 2, it can be seen that the respondents based on the HR division are 4 people or 10% of respondents, based on the General division there are 4 people or 10% of respondents, based on the Sales & Marketing division there are 4 people or 10% of respondents, based on the Finance division there are 4 people or 10% of respondents , based on the BP3S division there were 3 people or 7.5% of respondents, based on the PKBL division there were 3 people or 7.5% of respondents, based on the System and Compliance division there were 3 people or 7.5% of respondents, based on the Production & Operations division there were 3 people or 7.5% of respondents, based on the Infrastructure division there were 3 people or 7.5% of respondents, based on the Corporate Secretary division there were 5 people or 12.5% of respondents, and based on the Internal Control System there were 4 people or 10%. Who is an employee at PT. Medan Industry Area (Persero) which is the object of the author's research. 

The results that the authors obtained from the results of this study were conducted through distributing questionnaires to employees of PT. PT. Medan Industry Area (Persero) with 40 respondents. This research was conducted to determine the influence of democratic leadership style on employee performance. This study uses 2 variables, namely variables X and Y, the number of statements 18 on the democratic leadership style variable (X) and the employee performance variable (Y) which will be used as a benchmark in making the questionnaire. Based on the research conducted, the author will discuss the Effect of Democratic Leadership Style on Employee Performance. 

And based on the research that the author did get the results from the coefficient of determination (R2) it can be seen that the magnitude of the influence of the democratic leadership style is 0.069, this means that the democratic leadership style has an influence on employee performance. Thus it can be concluded that this indicates that the democratic leadership style is very good. So it can be concluded that the results of previous research with the research that the authors did were equally significant.