Pengaruh Pemberian Insentif dan Kepuasan Kerja terhadap Prestasi Kerja Karyawan Balai Yasa Pulo Brayan PT. Kereta Api Medan

Abstract

With the expanding era, the company is demanded to improve its performance all the time so that it can survive in the competition. Human resource as one of the important asset, in order to achieve the company successful goals, has to be taken by heart by its management. The company has to maintain and increase the employee job performance. Company can use strategy of giving out incentive and fulfill employee job satisfaction. It is hoped with the fulfillment of giving incentive as well as job satisfaction the employee will be stimulated to give their best performance to the work. The formulation of the research is how far giving incentive and job satisfaction influence the job performance at Balai Y asa Pulo Brayan PT. Kereta Api Medan using equity theory by Schermerhorn (2002) and incentive theory by Terry (2001). · The objective of this research is to know the influence of giving incentive and job satisfaction towards employee job performance at Balai Yasa Pulo Brayan PT. Kereta Api Medan. The technique of data collection are interview, distribute a list of questionnaire to a sample of 65 employees and documentation studies. To test the hypothesis the writer implements multiple regressions. Data is processed using SPSS program 12.00 version. The result of test in unison (F test) indicates that giving incentive and job satisfaction, all together, have a significant influence towards employee job performance at Balai Y asa Pulo Brayan PT. Kereta Api Medan. The result of partial test (t test) indicates that giving incentive and job satisfaction, each of which, influences significantly towards employee job performance at Balai Y asa Pulo Brayan PT. Kereta Api Medan. The result of determination test shows that the adjusted R Square= 0,552, which means the variation of giving incentive and job satisfaction can explain employee job performance at 55,2%.