Vol. 1 No. 4 (2025): Orasi: Jurnal Ilmu Politik dan Sosial

Leadership strategy is how a leader improves the performance of their employees in line with organizational goals. Improving performance is inevitably linked to several factors that can hinder a person's leadership. However, with the right strategies from a leader, these obstacles can be prevented or resolved using methods employed by leaders to ensure their success in leading an organization. In a government organization, a leader's strategy can determine the performance of an employee, depending on how a leader directs their employees to work so that they can work well and in accordance with the leader's instructions.

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk (1) mendeskripsikan strategi eksklusi dalam teks berita online. Penelitian dengan rancangan penelitian deskriptif kualitatif ini menggunakan berita di sejumlah media online edisi Januari-Maret 2019.  Sementara itu, objek penelitian ini adalah strategi eksklusi-inklusi yang digunakan pada berita tersebut. Metode pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah metode dokumentasi dengan teknik baca-catat. Berdasarkan analisis yang telah dilakukan dapat disimpulkan bahwa model analisisi ini dapat digunakan untuk mendeteksi dan meneliti bagaimana suatu kelompok atau seseorang dimarjinalkan posisinya dalam wacana serta dapat melihat bagaimana suatu kelompok dominan lebih memegang kendali dalam menafsirkan suatu peristiwa dan pemaknaannya, sementara kelompok lain posisinya lebih rendah dalam pemaknaannya. 

Every organization, whether public or private, has a leadership style that influences employee performance. A person's leadership style is a benchmark for their progress or decline in the organization they lead. One of the challenges faced by a leader is how to motivate employees to focus their abilities on the interests of the organization. The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of leadership style on employee performance in the Ujung Gurun sub-district and the obstacles and challenges faced by leaders in leading the Ujung Gurun sub-district. The research method used is a qualitative research method using a descriptive approach. This method describes or explains existing problems by providing answers to the problems raised. This research was conducted in the Ujung Gurun sub-district, Padang Barat district, Padang city, West Sumatra. In this study, the object of research was the head of the Ujung Gurun sub-district. The results of the study show that the leadership style applied in Ujung Gurun Village is a democratic leadership style, and the influence of this leadership style on employee performance is the extent to which leaders are able to embrace their members to achieve common goals and overcome the problems faced by their members.

The capacity within a person that can influence others at work is the meaning of leadership, which expects to achieve predetermined hierarchical goals. The motivation or purpose behind this study is to determine the leadership of the sub-district head on the performance of employees at the Padang Utara sub-district office, Padang City. This is a qualitative study. The expectation of this research is to improve employee performance by implementing situational leadership theory and combining it with the concept of democratic leadership. This can be seen from the decision-making process in which employees are always involved, delegated authority, control over work, and interactions between leaders and employees. The assessment of employee performance at the office implements an appropriate type of leadership, such as a performance assessment process that gives employees greater responsibility as a sign of trust in their work. In addition, in the Padang Utara sub-district, leaders are required to motivate employees to overcome any obstacles that could have a negative impact on employee performance, both within the agency and outside the agency.

The purpose of this study is to see how the media build discourse of freelancers versus permanent workers in the community through online media. This research uses discourse analysis Theo Van Leeuwen who reviews the text from the point of view of how a social actor experiences exclusion or inclusion of a text. In this study found a number of strategies used by the media or authors in generating or eliminating social actors from the text. The results of the study also show that freelancers are raised with the benefits obtained. In addition, the author of the discourse also provides a comparison between casual workers and permanent workers aimed at influencing readers in choosing jobs.