This research was conducted at the Surabaya City Public Housing, Settlement Areas, and Land Agency. The aim was to analyze the influence of leadership on employee work productivity, with motivation as a mediating variable. The population in this study was 75 employees of the Surabaya City Public Housing, Settlement Areas, and Land Agency, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. The sampling technique used total sampling. Data analysis used Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with Partial Least Squares (PLS). The results showed that leadership influences work productivity and motivation, motivation influences work productivity, and leadership influences work productivity through motivation
Utomo et al. (Tue,) studied this question.