Competence, work ethic, and supervision in a dual-principal bureaucracy: Determinants of employee performance in an Indonesian Legislative Secretariat

Amanda Devina () and Normansyah Normansyah ()
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Amanda Devina: Universitas Asahan
Normansyah Normansyah: Universitas Asahan

Priviet Social Sciences Journal, 2026, vol. 6, issue 8, 614-630

Abstract: Public bureaucracies serving elected assemblies occupy an unusual accountability position: their staff are recruited and promoted through a career civil service, yet the immediate consumers of their work are politicians whose composition changes at every electoral cycle. This study examines how competence, work ethic, and supervision relate to employee performance in one such body, the secretariat of the district legislature of Asahan Regency, North Sumatra, Indonesia, where two of five statutory performance indicators went unmet in 2025. Saturated sampling of the secretariat’s 62 staff yielded 44 usable questionnaires (71.0% response). Ordinary least squares regression on summed five-point Likert scales showed that the three predictors jointly accounted for a substantial share of variance in performance, F (3, 40) = 30.148, p

Keywords: bureaucratic accountability; collinearity diagnostics; human capital theory; Local Government; organisational control; relative importance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.55942/pssj.v6i8.2171

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