THE ROLE OF PUBLIC SERVICE MOTIVATION IN MEDIATING THE EFFECT OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP ON COMMITMENT TO CHANGE IN CENTRAL GOVERNMENT IN INDONESIA

Purpose: This research attempts to examine the causal relationship among variables in change management of governments in Indonesia, in which changes are implemented in order to carry out the Bureaucratic Reform as part of good governance. Researchers try to understand the effects of transformational leadership and public service motivation on the commitment to change in government agencies and the mediating effect of public service motivation. Methodology: This causal-predictive research obtained primary data from an online survey of 150 respondents working as civil servants in DKI Jakarta. The data was then processed by using Partial Least Square of Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). Findings: The result shows that transformational leadership has a positive indirect effect on the commitment to change through public service motivation. However, the direct effect of transformational leadership on the commitment to change was found to be insignificant. These show that public service motivation has an essential role in increasing the commitment of government employees to change. It is expected that the increase in commitment to change will advance changes in government - to reinforce bureaucratic reform Originality/value: Based on previous research, it was found that transformational leadership has direct and indirect effects on the commitment to change. In some of the research, public service motivation has a direct effect on the commitment to change. However, there is only a few researchers who studied public service motivation as a mediator of the relationship from transformational leadership to commitment to change.