Author(s): Endang Suswati
Midwife is not only a health worker who helps deliveries, but also be charged to be able to become an entrepreneur in order to empower the potential capabilities of midwife and others, able to create jobs and reduce unemployment. An entrepreneur must be a leader; a leadership owned by an entrepreneur is called as an entrepreneurial leadership. The purposes of this study are to examine the effect of entrepreneurial leadership on midwife competency, to examine the effect of competency on midwife performance, to examine the effect of entrepreneurial leadership on midwife performance, to examine the effect of entrepreneurial leadership on midwife performance through midwife competency. This research was conducted in Banyuwangi with midwives who have practical businesses privately or independently as respondents. Analytical tools used by path analysis using the AMOS (Analysis of Moment Structure) program in order to test the first, second, third and fourth hypotheses. The results of this study are: First, entrepreneurial leadership has a significant effect on midwife competence; Second, entrepreneurial leadership has a significant effect on midwife performance; Third, midwife competence has a significant effect on performance; and Fourth, entrepreneurial leadership has a significant effect on performance through midwife competence.