The Relationship Between Discipline and Motivation on Employee Performance Through Mediation Of Job Satisfaction

Abstract

: Job satisfaction in this research wants to see to what extent the role of job satisfaction in mediating the influence between work discipline and motivation on employee performance. This research was conducted on Bank employees in Makassar City, with a sample size of 135 respondents. Hypothesis testing is carried out using the AMOS-path analysis technique, and to identify the indirect effect the researcher also uses the sobel test. The results of the research can be concluded that the higher the discipline and work motivation, the job satisfaction of the employees will increase significantly. On the other hand, higher employee performance is influenced by significantly higher discipline and job satisfaction. However, it is different from work motivation that is not strong enough to affect employee performance improvement. Furthermore, the researcher found that job satisfaction was able to significantly mediate the effect of work discipline and motivation on employee performance.