INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH VOLUME 7, ISSUE 7, JULY 2018 ISSN 2277-8616 122 IJSTR©2018 www.ijstr.org The Influence Of Job Satisfaction, Motivation, And Organizational Commitment To Employee Performance Tamriatin Hidayah, Diana Sulianti K. Tobing Abstract: this study aims to investigate the relationship between the variables of job satisfaction, motivation, and organizational commitment to employee performance. Quantitative descriptive study with explanatory research design. The population in this study is the total number of employees in STIE Mandala Jember both fixed and non-permanent employees which amounted to 90. Samples taken are of 55 respondents and the back and analyzed by 50, by using simple random sampling technique. The analytical tool used is multiple linear regression. The results showed that job satisfaction, motivation and organizational commitment simultaneous influence to employee performance, than partially job satisfaction no significant influence on employee performance, and the other variable motivation and organizational commitment has significant. Index Terms: Job satisfaction, Motivation, Organizational Comitment, Employee Performance —————————— —————————— 1 INTRODUCTION Role of Human Resources in an organization is a very important determinant for the effectiveness and success of the organization in achieving its goals. The success of an organization is determined by the success in the performance of their employees. Employee performance is a significant factor in increasing the productivity of the organization. The effectiveness and efficiency of the organization depends on how effectively and efficiently the employees in the organization [11]. Employee performance has always been a major challenge in the management of the organization and adopting an effective way to motivate employees to achieve and provide a higher job performance and enhance the competitiveness of the organization is the primary goal of any business organization [23]. Most organizations worldwide effort to allocate more of their human resources rather than capital structure, because they believe that employees are a significant base to increase their profits and achieve success [14]. The success and the performance of a person in a line of work is influenced by, among others, the level of satisfaction, motivation, and commitment to their field of work is individual satisfaction which every individual has a different level of satisfaction. Satisfaction is an evaluation that describes someone on feeling his attitude happy or not happy, satisfied or not satisfied with the job [16]. The influence job satisfaction on employee performance [5, 6, 7, 11]. Motivation is a process that explains the strength, direction, and persistence of a person in an effort to achieve the goal" [17]. Employees have the motivation to get the job done well as something fun, because usually employees will obtain satisfaction through high employee performance. Employees can be given wider responsibility to make decisions and perform the duties of the employee because the employee already has the urge to work well and is likely to achieve the goals of the organization in a proper manner [17]. Effective motivation by Miller can create a productive workforce, but lack the motivation factor can make employees look for reasons to give their maximum effort [10]. An organizational commitment indicates a power of a person to identify his involvement in an organization. Organizational commitment is built on trust workers on the values of the organization, the willingness of workers to help realize the goals of the organization and loyalty to remain a member of the organization. Organizational commitment will create a sense of belonging to the workers of the organization. If the worker feels himself bound by organizational values are there then he will feel happy in their work, so that performance can be increased. Organizational commitment positively and significantly affects the performance of employees [15]. Step optimizing employee performance within the organization becomes a necessity to do, as well as in STIE Mandala. STIE Mandala employee performance is relatively good, it can be seen one of the questionnaire given to students and stakeholders about the service of employees. From the results of the questionnaire, indicating satisfaction with the service. Institution seeks to provide motivation in various forms in order to maintain and improve employee performance. Award motivation is also intended to increase employees' commitment to the institution. Based on the description above, it can be formulated objectives of this study are to determine the influence of variable job satisfaction, motivation, and organizational commitment to employee performance in STIE Mandala Jember simultaneously or partially. 2 LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Job Satisfaction "That job satisfaction is a positive feeling about the work resulting from an evaluation of the characteristics of its characteristics" [19]. A person with a high level of job satisfaction means having a positive attitude towards their work. Employees who have job satisfaction can certainly speak positively about the organization, far beyond the normal expectations of their job. Job satisfaction can help the emergence of organizational commitment, individuals who ___________________________ Tamriatin Hidayah is currently pursuing doctoral degree program in Management in University of Jember, Indonesia, PH- +628124974910. E-mail: titin@stie-mandala.ac.id Diana Sulianti K. Tobing is currently doctor of management in University of Jember, Indonesia, PH- +6281234662212. E-mail: dskltse@yahoo.com