Democratic Leadership

Hasibuan Defining leadership is a way for a leader to influence the behavior of his subordinates so that they are willing to work together and work productively to achieve organizational goals. 

Sudriamunawar Democratic leadership style is a leadership style known as participative style. This style assumes that subordinates who take part personally in the decision-making process are more likely to have a result of having a greater commitment to organizational goals and objectives. 

Mahendro Sumarjo the characteristics of a democratic leadership style are as follows: 

1. The workload of the organization is the joint responsibility of the human resources in the organization. 
2. Employees are considered as the main component in the implementation of work so that the strategic role of employees needs to be adjusted to the duties and responsibilities they carry. 
3. The leader still plays a dominant role but is not rigid in solving problems together. 
4. High trust in employees by not releasing supervisory responsibilities. 
5. Communication with employees is open and communicative. 

Dessler Employee performance is work performance, namely the comparison between work results that are seen in real terms with work standards that have been set by the organization. 

Simamora Performance is the level of employee work results in achieving the requirements of a given job. 

Bernadine Employee performance indicators are as follows:

1. Quality The degree to which the results of the activities carried out are nearly perfect, in the sense of adjusting some ideal way of performing activities or fulfilling the expected goals of an activity. 
2. Quantity The amount generated in terms of the number of units, the number of activity cycles completed. 
3. Timeliness The level of an activity is completed at the desired initial time, seen from the point of view of coordination with the output results and maximizing the time available for other activities. 
4. Effectiveness The level of use of the organization's human resources is maximized with the intention of increasing the profits or reducing the losses of each unit in the use of resources. 
5. Independence The degrees to which an employee can perform his job function without asking for guidance from the supervisor or asking the supervisor to intervene in order to avoid adverse results. 

According to Robbins and Judge, leaders are who inspire their followers to put aside their personal interests for the good of the organization and are able to have an extraordinary influence on their followers. According to Yukl, transformational leadership is a situation where the followers of a transformational leader feel trust, admiration, loyalty and respect for the leader, and they are motivated to do more than they initially expected.

Leadership can be defined as a process of directing and giving influence to the activities of a group of members who are related to their duties. According to Gorton et al., Leadership is a characteristic of leaders in influencing subordinates to achieve organizational goals. The success of leadership is partly determined by the ability of leaders to develop their organizational culture.

Leadership is very important for the development of every human activity and in general for the whole social environment. As a phenomenon, leadership is a key for success of companies, so it plays great attention both in theory and in practice. Leaders who are able to encourage, change and use values, beliefs and needs of their followers' execution of tasks in crisis situations and dynamic major changes are transformational leaders. Organization always strives to create a good working relationship between leaders and subordinates, in maintaining this condition a leader who can exert influence and can foster a work ethic of subordinates at work, so that his performance is more leverage. In the application of leadership communication, leaders can communicate with various types of leadership communication in accordance with the selection of communication patterns. The type of leadership communication must be owned by a leader for the leader to use in influencing his subordinates to achieve organizational goals. 

During life, humans are never separated from leadership, even the most independent modern people still need leaders. The quality of leadership contained in an organization plays a very dominant role in the success of the organization in carrying out its various activities, especially seen in the performance of its employees According to Robbins, if a leader succeeds in influencing subordinates with his vision, instilling his charisma, motivating and being an inspiration, stimulating intellectual, creativity and respecting his employees can be sure that employees will work well, seriously and loyal to the company so that their performance increases. 

The term performance or work performance comes from the English word "performance". According to Busro in Purba, performance is defined as work ability in terms of quality and quantity. Performance is a work performance (performance) both in quantity and quality achieved by someone during a certain period, usually within one year. According to Ivancevich, Konopaske and Matteson that performance shows the ability and skills of workers. Opinions emphasize the competence of human resources possessed by organizations, ranging from the ability of employees' cognition, affection, and psychomotor.