Hubungan Motivasi dengan Kinerja Karyawan di PT. Pupuk Iskandar Muda (Persero) Kabupaten Aceh Utara

Abstract

This study aims to determine the relationship between motivation and employee performance. Subjects in this study were employees of the governance and archives section who worked at PT Pupuk Iskandar Muda North Aceh. The sample in this study amounted to 40 of the total population. This study uses the Likert scale method and documentation method. In line with the discussion in the theory, the hypothesis proposed in this study reads: there is a positive relationship between motivation and employee performance, assuming the higher the motivation, the higher the employee's performance. And conversely the lower the motivation, the lower the performance of employees. Data analysis method used in this research is product moment correlation technique. From the results of data processing there is a very significant positive relationship between motivation and employee performance. This result is evidenced by the correlation coefficient rxy = 0.731; p = <0.05. Thus, the hypothesis that has been proposed in this study is accepted. Work motivation has an effect of 53.4% on the good and bad performance of employees. Based on the results of this study there are still 46.6% of the influence of other factors where these factors are not the main focus in this study including psychological factors, individual factors, organizational factors. It was concluded that the employee's work motivation was declared "sufficient" as seen from the empirical average value (67.56) smaller than the hypothetical average value (70) and the "sufficient" employee performance seen from the documentation report of the company had an average value empirical (18.85).