Motivation for Work Commitment of Government Employees

Abstract

This research aimed to study motivation and work commitment classified according to personal data and to study the relationship between corporate motivation and commitment of government employee. This research uses a quantitative research approach. The sample of 400 employee in private corporation selected using multi-stage sampling. The data were collected by using questionnaires tested for the validity and reliability. The statistics used in the analysis were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and correlation analysis. The results of the research revealed that work motivation was positively correlated with organizational commitment of employee in private company was a moderately positive correlation (r=0.587) with statistical significance at the 0.01 level. When considering the relationship of overall work motivation and engagement in each aspect, it was found that work motivation was positively correlated with organizational commitment in the aspect of Continuity (r=0.587) at the most with moderate level, followed by Affective (r=0.448) and Normative (r = 0.363), respectively.

Keywords— Government employees, Motivation, Work commitment