Open AccessImproving Employee Performance Through Achievement Oriented Work Motivation
Author(s) -
Liza Mumtazah Damarwulan,
Dibyantoro Dibyantoro
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal research of social science, economics, and management/journal research of social science, economics and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2807-6494
pISSN - 2807-6311
DOI - 10.36418/jrssem.v1i8.124
Subject(s) - competence (human resources) , nonprobability sampling , structural equation modeling , need for achievement , psychology , path analysis (statistics) , population , applied psychology , knowledge management , marketing , business , social psychology , mathematics , computer science , statistics , medicine , environmental health
The higher the level of competition in the industrial sector, it is necessary for the company's efforts to respond well to this in order to survive through internal strategies in the form of improving employee performance. Training and competence are found to be one of the factors that can improve employee performance. The main purpose of this study is to build a model in an effort to improve employee performance involving achievement-oriented work motivation as an intervening variable the effect of training effectiveness and soft skill competence on employee performance. The population in this study are employees of companies engaged in the manufacturing sector with 276 employees. Samples were taken by 100 employees using purposive random sampling method. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to test the statistical significance of the path coefficients against the five (5) established hypotheses. The findings of the study indicate that the effectiveness of training and soft skill competencies have a positive and significant influence on achievement-oriented work motivation. Effectiveness of training, soft skill competence, and achievement-oriented work motivation have a positive and significant influence on employee performance.