A good performance potentially creates competitive advantage for any organization. Performance is determined by the role of leaders who influence all members of organizations through clear directions. Likewise, employee satisfaction in improving the performance of an organization also depends on the leader. This study investigates the role of leadership and job satisfaction on employee’s performance. Sample of this research includes 160 employees in a public organization in Indonesia. They are analyzed by descriptive and inference statistics for the linearity and regression analysis. The results of the study show that leadership had a significant impact on employee’s performance and job satisfaction. They are recommended to be considered when performance needs to be improved.

The objective of this causal research was to obtain information concerning: 1. the negative effect of leadership transformational toward withdrawal behavior, 2. the negative effect of organizational communication toward withdrawal behavior, 3 the negative effect of job in-volvement toward withdrawal behavior, 4. the positive effect of transformational leadership toward job involvement, and 5. the positive effect of organizational communication toward job involvement. The research was conducted by SEM method for testing the hypotheses. In this research, state civil apparatus at the Regional Secretariat of the Southeast Sulawesi has been chosen as a unit analysis and 215 samples of employees were selected randomly. The results of the research are as follows: (1) there is a negative effect of leadership transformational toward withdrawal behavior; (2) there is a negative effect of organizational communication toward withdrawal behavior; (3) there is a negative effect of job involvement toward withdrawal behavior; (4) there is a positive effect of transformational leadership toward job involvement; (5) there is a positive effect of organizational communication toward job involvement.