The Effect of Work Environment and Job Motivation on Job Satisfaction and Job Performance in PT. X
Date
2012-08-04Author
Naufal, Prio
Suryaputra, Ronald
Sondakh, Oliandes
Williem
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Abstract
In the current business environment, the
concern of the companies is not only focusing on the
products or services produced, but the companies also
concern about the employees because it is believed that
by focusing also on the employees will bring many
positive advantages for the company’s growth.
Although the government of Surabaya already settled
the regulation about regional minimum wage, there
were still many companies that were not following the
regulation. However, there were some companies that
followed the salary regulation made by the
government. One of the companies was PT. X. It is
found that, PT. X provided its employee good job
motivation and work environment which made the
employees thought differently, by did not join the
demonstration ever held. By providing good job
motivation and work environment, it is interesting to
be known whether these factors have created enough
job satisfaction and job performance since PT. X is the
second leader in ice cream industry. According to
some theories, there can be found that job motivation
has relation to job satisfaction, work environment has
relation to job satisfaction, job satisfaction has relation
to job performance, job motivation has relation to job
performance, and work environment has relation to
job performance.
This study used simple regression to test the
hypotheses in statistic software of SPSS version 16.00.
The sample of the study is the employee of PT. X,
which the whole population became the sample. From
the study it is found that (1) Job motivation has
positive significant effect to job satisfaction, (2) Work
environment has positive significant effect to job
satisfaction, (3) Job satisfaction has positive
significant effect to job performance, (4) Job
motivation has positive significant effect to job
performance, and (5) Work environment has positive
significant effect to job satisfaction.