Kepuasan Kerja: Sebagai Variabel Mediasi Hubungan Antara Employee Engagement dan Organizational Commitment

摘要

Th e objective of this study is to determine the effect of employee engagement and job satisfaction towards employee commitment in banking companies in Padang. The population in this study all employees who work in conventional banking companies in Padang. The sampling technique is a cluster proportional random sampling technique, so that we get 306 samples. Data were analy zed by using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) technique , with alternative method of PLS . The test show s that that result of the research support s the hypothesis , in which employee engagement has a direct and significant effect towards organizational commitment. The job satisfaction is also found to have a direct and significant effect towards organizational commitment. Lastly, the job satisfaction functions as a partial mediator on correlation between employee engagement with organizational commitment. For further research, the researcher suggests that getting a greater amount of influence between variables, can be tested on different objects and also adding other variables that can affect organizational commitment, such as; personal factors.