The Effect of Work Motivation and Compensation towards Performance of Non-Civil Servant Employee with Job Satisfaction as a Mediation Variable

Abstract

Human resource in the organization is one of the functions in the application of management in order to realize the vision, mission, and goals of the organization. One of parts of human resource is the employees including the non-civil servant of Public Health Center in Tambrauw Regency. The performance of non-civil servant can be known through the performance of the Public Health Center that will have an impact on the performance of the health office. Thus, work motivation, compensation, and job satisfaction are several factors that support the implementation of non-civil servant employee performance in order to provide good service quality. This study aims to determine the effect of work motivation towards non-civil servant’s employee performance and job satisfaction, compensation towards employee performance and job satisfaction, and job satisfaction on employee performance. This study uses a quantitative approach. Respondents in this study were 109 Public Health Center employees in Tambrauw Regency, West Papua Province. The data used in this study are primary data obtained from the questionnaire filling results. The data from the filling results were then analyzed using SEM-AMOS. The results show that (1) work motivation positively and significantly affects non-civil servants’ employee performance, (2) compensation positively and significantly affects non-civil servants’ employee performance, (3) work motivation positively and significantly affects job satisfaction, (4) compensation positively and significantly affects job satisfaction, (5) job satisfaction positively and significantly affects non-civil servants’ employee performance, (6) work motivation positively and significantly affects performance mediated by job satisfaction, and (7) compensation positively and significantly affects performance mediated by job satisfaction. The conclusion is that the higher the work motivation of the non-civil servant employee of Public Health Center, the higher the performance and the job satisfaction; the higher the compensation of the non-civil servant employee of Public Health Center, the higher their performance and job satisfaction; and the higher the job satisfaction, the higher their performance.