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Employee Engagement and Motivation as Mediators between the Linkage of Reward with Employee Performance  

SISWANTO, Siswanto (Faculty of Economics, State Islamic University of Maulana Malik Ibrahim)
MAULIDIYAH, Zahrotul (Faculty of Economics, State Islamic University of Maulana Malik Ibrahim)
MASYHURI, Masyhuri (Faculty of Economics, State Islamic University of Maulana Malik Ibrahim)
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The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business / v.8, no.2, 2021 , pp. 625-633 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study analyzes the impact of the reward variable on employees' performance through work motivation and employee engagement. This study's specific purpose is to investigate employee engagement's mediating role in the relationship between reward and employee performance. The sample of research is the employee at Sukorejo, Pasuruan Indonesia. The sample is permanent employees at manufacture corporate. The sample size is 150 employees of the total 759 workers through the calculation of the Slovin formula. Respondents in this study were employees with the criteria for having worked for at least last five years. The data obtained is in the form of answers from employees to the statements submitted. The data analysis was used structural equation modeling partial least square. To test the relationship between variables, it was equipped with a Sobel mediation test of statistics. SmartPLS 3.0 is used to help analyze the relationship between variables. The result shows that the reward does not have a direct influence on the performance of employees. However, it has a significant positive effect on the performance of employees through employee engagement. While working motivation variable does not have the role as a mediation variable related to the effect of reward on employee performance.
Keywords
Employee Engagement; Employee Performance; Reward; Work Motivation;
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