International Journal of Social Sciences Perspectives
ISSN: 2577-7750
Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 22-37
2019
DOI: 10.33094/7.2017.2019.41.22.37
© 2018 by the authors; licensee Online Academic Press, USA
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© 2019 by the authors; licensee Online Academic Press, USA
The Influence of Non-Physical Work Environment and Job Characteristics on Employee
Performance at PT. Daliatex Kusuma in Bandung
Nidaul Izzah, S.E.
1
Novita Rini, S.A.B.
2
Baby Poernomo, M.A.
3*
1,2,3
STIAMI- Institute of Social Sciences
and Management, Jakarta-Indonesia
Licensed:
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Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Keywords:
Nonphysical work environment
Job characteristics
Performance of employees.
Abstract
This study aims to determine the influence of non-physical work
environment and job characteristics either partially or simultaneously on
the performance of employees of PT. Daliatex Kusuma in Bandung.
This research is a quantitative and a population study. The subjects were
all employees at PT. Daliatex Kusuma with the number of 60 people.
Collecting data using questionnaires that have been tested for validity
and reliability, while the analysis of data using multiple linear
regression analysis. The results showed that: 1) There is a positive and
significant influence of non-physical work environment on employee
performance indicated from the test results tcount of 4.781 with 0.000
significance. 2) There is a positive and significant influence between
characteristics of work on employee performance indicated from the test
results of tcount of 2.534 with a significance of 0.000. 3) There is a
significant influence between the working environment of non-physical
and occupational characteristics simultaneously on the performance of
employees. This is indicated by the value Fcount 1,716 with significant
value 0.025 and can be written by the regression equation Y = 53.554
+ 0.526 (X1) + 0.279 (X2), with the influence of 60.8%, while the
remaining 39.2% is influenced by other factors outside the research.
Funding: This research was supported by STIAMI-Institute of Social Sciences and Management, Jakarta-
Indonesia.
Competing Interests: The authors do not have any conflict of interest to declare.
Acknowledgement: We are thankful to Research and Community Outreach of STIAMI- Institute of Social
Sciences and Management which has provided expertise that greatly assisted the research.
1. Introduction
In this era of competition, companies that cannot meet the demands of customers with special product
quality may be eliminated from the competition in the business world. Companies that are actively pursuing
quality will surely reap healthy growth in the future. Therefore companies must be prepared to face the
pressures to change, they are required to respond in order to survive and succeed in current and future
business competition. This must be responded to by management who are required to provide better
performance while improving and maintaining quality, and competitiveness to face further pressure. Quality
of competent human resources is the principal of the success of the company, but organizational and
environmental factors also have a major influence on employees in the work process. In general, companies
that are unable to face competition have low product performance and quality. To be able to bring a
company organization into a business environment, managers must be responsible for planning and having
the competence to make changes as expected. The manager's main task is to motivate employees to improve
their performance at a higher level.
According to Sedarmayanti (2011) it reveals that performance is a translation which means the work of
a worker, a management process or an organization as a whole, where the results of the work of the person
must be shown concretely and can be measured (compared to standards that have been determined). Based
on interviews conducted with several employees in the preliminary survey, the following data were
obtained: