Scientific Journal of PPI-UKM Social Sciences and Economics Vol. 3 (2016) No. 6 ISSN No. 2356 - 2536 276 The Mediating Effect of Calling on Spiritual Leadership and Job Satisfaction in Village Credit Institution I Gede Putu Kawiana a *, I Gede Riana b a Indonesia Hindu University, Bali, Indonesia b University of Udayana, Bali, Indonesia Abstract This research aims to identify and analyse: 1) the effect of spiritual leadership on calling; 2) the effect of spiritual leadership on job satisfaction; 3) the effect of calling on job satisfaction; 4) the mediating effect of calling on spiritual leadership and job satisfaction. The Sample which is used in this study was employees which purposive sampling is taken 44 respondent under certain criteria of the village credit institution (VCI). Data used in this research is primary and secondary data which using Partial Least Square (PLS) in analysing qualifies gathered data. The results of the analysis concluded that: first, spiritual leadership has a significant effect on calling; secondly, spiritual leadership has a significant effect on job satisfaction; thirdly, calling has not significant effect on job satisfaction; finally, calling has unmediated on spiritual leadership and job satisfaction. Keywords: calling, spiritual leadership, job satisfaction. Received: 20 April 2016; Accepted: 13 December 2016 * Corresponding author. Tel.: N/A. E-mail address: putu_kawiana@yahoo.com DOI: 10.21752/sjppi-ukm/ses/a13122016 1. Introduction The existence of village credit institution (VCI) on cultural villages in Bali is an Arthasastra political strategy economy in terms of revenue cultural villages as the bottom of society structure in the traditional government organizations. VCI existence as a form of adjustment to meet the challenges of the complex economic environment (global economic) as a result of the transformation of the agricultural culture to industrial culture especially tourism industry. VCI is expected to be a function of the manifestation of the existence cultural villages since the formation of the VCI is a combination of tradition and modern system. Nowadays, VCI requires a more holistic model of leadership to solve the problems of leadership. Holistic leadership models used in this research is a spiritual leadership [1]. The theory of spiritual leadership made it clear that there is a difference with the previous leadership theories which only focused on some aspects of physical, mental or emotional elements of human interaction in organizations that neglect the spirituality component [1]. Spiritual leadership is needed for the transformation of sustained success that it becomes a fundamental requirement for leaders and followers so that they are more committed to the organization and to feel high job satisfaction. Leadership is a subject that has long attracted attention of many researchers in various countries. According to Yukl [2] the term leadership is described as the image of a strong and dynamic individuals who successfully led, both in the military, political, business and social organizations. The success of a leader is perceived by subordinates that is a function of leadership behaviour and spiritual leaders who are moderated by the practices of spirituality, a leader [3]. A general model of spiritual leadership arises from the interaction of altruistic love, vision, and hope/faith in the organization's members. The emergence of spiritual leadership then touches a fundamental requirement for both the leader and the follower for the spiritual well-being through of calling and membership. Fry [4] described the spiritual welfare (i.e., calling and membership) then drive organizational commitment, productivity and higher level job satisfaction. Fry et al., [5] found that a positive and significant relationship between spiritual leadership on calling. Bodla et al [6] claimed spiritual leadership directly related to organizational commitment and calling. According to Mansor et al., [7] each element of spiritual leadership (vision, altruistic love, and calling) has a significant relationship with organizational commitment. Study by Hill et al., [8] stated that spirituality is a rapidly growing field in research and has important implications for the theory of