Investigating the Impact of Job Insecurity and Burnout towards Employee Performance in Mitsubishi Pontianak: The Mediating Role of Work Engagement

Abstract

Aims: This study examined the effects of job insecurity and burnout on employee performance and work engagement as mediating variables at Mitsubishi Pontianak. Study Design:  A quantitative approach was used to investigate this study, and as many as 233 respondents who met the required requirements participated. Place and Duration of Study: The study took place at Pontianak, West Kalimantan with Mitsubishi Pontianak as a background study and was conducted between September 2022 and November 2022. Methodology: The samples included a total of 233 respondents (80 men, 153 women; age range 20-50 years). The sample criteria in this study were all workers with active status without any minimum years of service and age requirements. Researchers used AMOS 24 software and structural equation modeling (SEM) to process the data. Results: The t-score value of job insecurity on employee performance is -3.630, which is greater than the t-table value (1.96) and the p-value shows a number below 0.001, less than 0.05 (α = 0.05). These results indicate that job insecurity has a statistically significant negative relationship with employee performance. The test also showed that there is a negative relationship between burnout and employee performance. It proved by the t-score of burnout indicates this on employee performance of -2.234 and a p-value of less than 0.05, which is 0.25. Job insecurity and burnout have a negative indirect influence on employee performance via job engagement.  Conclusion: This research found that job insecurity and burnout significantly influenced employee performance at Mitsubishi Pontianak. That indicates job insecurity and burnout were statistically significant factors influencing employee performance. Work engagement serves as a mediator, indirectly strengthening the impact of job insecurity and burnout on employee performance.