Employee Productivity Through Work Motivation as an Intervention Variable at Panca Budi Development University

Abstract

This study was conducted to see how the influence of mutation and workload on employee productivity through motivation as an intervening variable in a case study at Universitas Pembangunan Panca Budi Medan. The population in this study were employees at Universitas Pembangunan Panca Budi Medan who had orientation, contract and permanent employee status totaling 127 employees with a sample size of 56 people where the number of samples was determined by the Slovin formula. The data used were primary data and secondary data taken directly from respondents using questionnaires and data from internal agencies. This type of research is associative quantitative. Data processing uses software Smart – PLS version 4.0 with path analysis using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM-PLS) analysis technique . The results of the hypothesis testing study indicate that workload directly affects work motivation as indicated by p values of 0.000 <0.05. Workload directly does not affect employee productivity as indicated by p values of 0.098> 0.05. Motivation directly affects employee productivity as indicated by p values of 0.001 <0.05. Workload through motivation indirectly does not affect employee productivity as indicated by p values of 0.022> 0.05.