PENGARUH KOMPENSASI DAN MOTIVASI TERHADAP KINERJA KARYAWAN PADA PT. PRIMA BUMI PAKUWON JAYA BOJONEGORO

Abstract

This study is motivated by the lack of compensation, namely wages, given by PT. Prima Bumi Pakuwon Jaya to the production worker which does not adversely affect the employees’ work performance. The amount of the compensation awarded by PT. Prima Bumi Pakuwon Jaya is under the Regional Minimum Wage (UMR) of Bojonegoro regency. Thus, this study was conducted to investigate the effect of compensation and motivation toward the employees’ work performance.

This research is a quantitative research. In determining the samples, the researcher used The non probability sampling with saturated sampling due to the population is less than 100 subjects (Arikunto, 1998:112). Therefore, 80 production employees consisting of 63 female and 17 male employees were included to be the sample in this study. The instrument used for the data collection was a questionnaire and analyzed by linear regression.

The results of this study showed that the compensation especially the wage’s amount partially gave positive effect toward the employees’ work performance. Furthermore, the motivation is also partially gave positive effect toward the employees’ work performance. The findings of this study showed that the compensation given by the PT. Prima Bumi Pakuwon Jaya is proportional to the difficulty level of the work based on the production employees’ point of view.

Keywords: Compensation, Wage, Motivation, Work Performance