Influence of Individual Characteristics and Work Environment on Employee’s Motivation and Performance

This research is to know the influence of individual characteristics and work environment on employee’s motivation, influence of individual characteristics and work environment on performance, influence of employee’s motivation on performance, and to know influence of employee’s motivation as intervening individual characteristics and work environment on performance. The methodology uses two stages, test of instrument quality and hypothesis testing. The data collection technique used a census because the population was only 76 people. Individual characteristics have a significant influence on employee’s motivation and performance, work environment has a significant influence on employee’s motivation but has no significant influence on performance. The test results show that the employee’s motivation variable mediates the influence of individual characteristics and work environment on performance. This research update on motivation variable as intervening variable between individual characteristics variable, performance variable, research location, and variable relation model. Limitations of this study include the number of samples being only 76 subjectivities. Also, research should be held again in different places with more samples