Analysis Leadership Style in the Work-From-Everywhere Policy and its Implication on Job Satisfaction in Indonesia

Abstract

The global concept of Work-From-Home has developed into Work-From-Everywhere, 
especially in Indonesia, as a policy for social distancing efforts in the community, due to 
the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, employees working from home are affected, and it 
requires the role of leaders to optimally manage their organization, in order to provide 
job satisfaction to the workers. This research aims to determine the new leadership style, 
in respect to Work-From-Everywhere era, and empirically examines its effect on  job 
satisfaction. As much as 391 employees working virtually were selected. The online 
questionnaire used, was analyzed by SEM Amos, which showed that the new leadership 
style affects job satisfaction with the mediation of trust, relationship building, and 
employee communication. Moreover, leaders that are capable of managing these features 
are found to effectively increase job satisfaction. This study contributes to the managers' 
skills, such as paying attention to the new leadership style, focusing on the goal, ensuring 
collaborative climate, relationship building, roles & responsibility, feedback and mutual 
support, sharp  employee communication towards credibility, context and content,  
benevolence, and Integrity.