This study is aimed to analyze the effect of motivation, transformational leadership and organizational culture on job satisfaction and lecturer performance as well as its implications for career development, organizational commitment and work discipline of private higher education lecturers in South Kalimantan. In this study, 184 respondents are obtained as samples from 352 respondents. The study is conducted using a survey method with Structural Equation Modeling in analyzing data. First, it is found that motivation, transformational leadership, and organizational culture had a positive effect on lecturers’ job satisfaction. Second, motivation and transformational leadership did not have a positive effect on lecturer’ performance, but the organizational culture had a positive effect on lecturer' performance. Third, the result showed that job satisfaction had a positive impact on performance. Fourth, job satisfaction had a positive effect on career development and organizational commitment while the work discipline did not. Fifth, the result proved that performance had a positive impact on career development, organizational commitment, and work discipline. The important finding of this study was that lecturer performance partially mediatesjob satisfaction towards organizational commitment
