In improving the community welfare, the good performance of village head was needed, but in reality the performance of village heads in Bekasi regency had not maximized yet. The purpose of this study was to describe the extent of regent leadership style as a leader of village chief in motivating, empowering the performance of the village chief. The method used in this study was a quantitative approach. Data were collected by using a research instrument in the form of a questionnaire given to

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... respondents. Data analysis techniques used in this study was Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with the help of Amos program. The results showed that the district's leadership style was significantly influence motivation, but motivation did not affect the performance of the village chief. Motivation could not be called a mediator because the district's leadership style directly having significant effect on the performance of the village head, while district leadership style had no effect on prosperity, but prosperity was significantly having effect on the performance of the village head. So, then prosperity also could not be called a mediator. The implication of this study was the regent leadership style was important because it had managed to improve the performance of the village head.