Penelitian ini adalah studi korelasional yang bertujuan untuk mengungkap tingkat pengaruh langsung kecerdasan emosi dan kepemimpinan transformasional terhadap kreativitas karyawan dan pengaruh tidak langsung kedua variabel tersebut terhadap kreativitas karyawan melalui variabel mediator kepuasan kerja. Penelitian ini juga bertujuan untuk mencari tingkat signifikansi dari peran kecerdasan emosional dan kepemimpinan transformasional sebagai prediktor kreativitas karyawan, baik secara langsung maupun melalui variabel mediator kepuasan kerja. Data penelitian diperoleh melalui metode survey terhadap 60 karyawan di Penerbit dan Percetakan Kanisius dan CV. Andi Offset, sebagai subjek penelitian. Skala Kreativitas Karyawan, Skala Kecerdasan Emosional, Skala Kepemimpinan Transformasional dan Skala Kepuasan Kerja merupakan instrumen yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini. Analisis data dilakukan dengan menggunakan analisis regresi sederhana dan ganda dengan bantuan program statistik SPSS 13.0 for Windows. Hasil analisis regresi mengungkap bahwa kecerdasan emosi dan kepemimpinan transformasional berperan sebagai prediktor langsung bagi kreativitas karyawan, maupun melalui mediator kepuasan kerja. Hasil analisis regresi ganda untuk melihat adanya peran mediator dalam hubungan variabel bebas dengan varibel tergantung mengungkap bahwa kecerdasan emosional, kepemimpinan transformasional, dan kepuasan kerja berperan secara signifikan dalam meningkatkan kreativitas karyawan, dimana F=1145,841, p=0,000. Sementara itu proporsi variansi kreativitas yang dapat dijelaskan dari ketiga variabel prediktor adalah sebesar 98,3%. Hasil analisis regresi untuk melihat peran langsung mengungkap bahwa kecerdasan emosional berperan secara signifikan meningkatkan kreativitas karyawan (F=26,939; p=0,000) dengan prosentase kontribusi 31,7%. Sementara itu, kepemimpinan transformasional juga menunjukkan pengaruh yang signifikan (F=5,305; p=0,000) dan mempunyai sumbangan terhadap kreativitas karyawan sebesar sebesar 31,8%.

This study was a correlational study which aimed at revealing the extent to which the direct effect of emotional intelligence and transformational leadership on employee creativity and the effect of both independent variables on employee creativity mediated by job satisfaction, and also finding out how significant the role of emotional intelligence and transformational leadership toward employee creativity, directly and through mediating variable job satisfaction, at Kanisius and Andi Offset Publishing and Printing Yogyakarta. Data for the study were obtained through surveys. There were 60 employees at Kanisius and Andi Offset Publishing and Printing who became the subjects in this study. The measuring tools employed in this study were Creativity Scale, Emotional Intelligence Scale, Transformational Leadership Scale, and Job Satisfaction Scale. Data were analyzed using Regression Analysis, with the help of SPSS 13.0 for Windows. The result of multiple regression analysis showed that emotional intelligence, transformational leadership, and job satisfaction (mediator) were significantly affected employee creativity, in which F= 1145,841, p = 0,000. In the meantime, the effective contribution of the three variables to the dependent variable was 98, 3%. The results also showed that in spite of their positive correlation, the regression coefficients (B) of emotional intelligence and transformational leadership were not significant (p>0,05), which meant that both independent variables had only small role on enhancing employee creativity. The results of simple regression analysis to find out the direct effect of each independent variable on the dependent variable indicated that emotional intelligence were significantly affected employee creativity, in which F= 26,939 and p=0,000, with contribution 31,7%. Meanwhile, transformational leadership were also significantly affected employee creativity with F=5,305, p=0,000 and effectively contributed 31,8% to employee creativity.

Kata Kunci : Kecerdasan Emosi,Kreativitas,Kepuasan Kerja,Emotional Intelligence, Transformational Leadership, Job Satisfaction, Employee Creativity