Employee Retention and Enhancement of Performance by Motivation and Work Discipline in the Pharmacy Department in Manembo-nembo Bitung Hospital

Introduction: The performance of a pharmacist as the implementer of pharmaceutical services is an important issue that must be studied to increase the quality of hospital services. A good performance of a pharmacist is an indicator of health services. From point of view of human resources, motivation, and work discipline are the main factors that influence a pharmacist’s performance. Objective: To determine the influence of motivation and discipline on employee performance at the department pharmacy of Manembo-nembo hospital, Bitung. Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted in June 2020. The respondent is all of the pharmacists in the pharmacy department as many as 25 people. The questionnaire is used as a measuring tool which consists of three variables namely motivation, work discipline, and performance. The data was processed using SPPS version 23 for windows. Results: The results showed that normality test were normally distributed, free of multicollinearity data, and heteroskedastic. Motivation and work discipline effects performance value 12.3% and 42.8% Conclusion: There is a positive and significant effect between motivation and work discipline variables on performance variables.