Effect of Work Motivation and Work Environment toward Employee Performance in the PDAM Tirta Malem Kabanjahe

Abstract

Work motivation in organizations is very important because the motivation has an important role in every individual, both in a leader and his subordinates, because this is one of the factors that is relied on in achieving an organizational goal where motivation is related to the strength or drive that is in a person so that it refers to the conditions that cause the diversity of intensity, quality, direction, and duration of work behavior. The work the environment is also one part of the factors that can affect the process of employee performance, where if the work environment of an employee is not good and low employee motivation can certainly lead to low performance results of existing employees in the company, vice versa if the atmosphere a good work environment can certainly create good employee performance results. Therefore, in this study, the authors use work motivation and work environment as independent variables and employee performance as the dependent variable. The population in this study was 115 people and 53 respondents. The method used in this research is quantitative with an associative approach. The technique used in this study is probability sampling with a simple random sampling approach. Data collection was carried out by distributing questionnaires to respondents who were PDAM Tirta Malem Kabanjahe employees. Data were analyzed using the validity test, reliability test, the classic assumption test, multiple linear regression analysis, t test, F test and test of determination R 2 which is operated by SPSS 16. T test results in work motivation variables obtained t value of 5.530> t table of 2.007 and work motivation correlated with employee performance by 55% so it can be concluded that part there is an influence between work motivation variables on employee performance variables, then t test results the work environment variables obtained t value of 3.582> t table of 2.007 and the work environment correlated with employee performance of 35.6% so it can be concluded that part there is an influence between the work environment variables on employee performance variables. Based on the results of the hypothesis on the results of the F test obtained the calculated F value of 34.442> F table of 3.18 so it can be concluded that the variables of work motivation and work environment together affect the employee performance variables. Test results The coefficient of determination (R 2) obtained a value of R Square in 0.579. This means that work motivation and work environment variables affect employee performance by 57.9% and the remaining 42.1% is influenced by other variables not included in this study such as salary, leadership style, work discipline, workload, job awards, and so on.