PENGARUH KEMAMPUAN KERJA DAN MOTIVASI TERHADAP KEPUASAN KERJA SERTA IMPLIKASINYA PADA KINERJA PEGAWAI DINAS PERTAMBANGAN DAN ENERGI PROVINSI JAWA BARAT

Abstract

This research was conducted at the Department of Mines and Energy of West Java Province. The results of preliminary studies obtain findings that employee's performance has not met expectations. Of the many factors causing the observed, supposedly the most dominant influence is the low employee satisfaction are also thought to be caused by his ability and motivation are low. Therefore formulated the problem is: How can directly and indirectly influence the ability and motivation to job satisfaction of employees, as well as how to influence employee job satisfaction on the performance of the Department of Mines and Energy of West Java Province. The method used is descriptive method of analysis, with a total population of 109 employees serve as the respondent (census). The data analysis technique used is the correlation analysis techniques to determine the degree of closeness of the relationship between the study variables and path analysis techniques to determine the effect, directly or indirectly, exogenous variables on endogenous variables. In the operationalization used the help of MSI and SPSS 10 software and Excel.              

The results showed that the ability of employees to be in pretty good category, employee motivation is the best category, and employee satisfaction is in the good category, the performance of employees are in good category. The direct effect on the ability of employee satisfaction 0.063, indirect effect through motivational abilities to job satisfaction of 0.091, so the total effect of 0.154. ; The direct effect of work motivation on job satisfaction of 0.538, an indirect influence motivation to work through the ability to work on job satisfaction of 0.091, so the effect totaled 0,629; Influence the ability and motivation to job satisfaction is at .783 the rest of 0,217merupakan influence of other variables. Effect of job satisfaction on the performance is equal to 0, 699 the rest of 0.301 determined by other variables.