ANALISIS VARIABEL STRES KERJA YANG MEMPENGARUHI KEPUASAN KERJA DAN SEMANGAT KERJA KARYAWAN POLITEKNIK NEGERI JEMBER

Abstract

Works stress is a condition in which a person shows adaptive responses facilitated by the individual distinctions as the subsequence of each action, situation, or event which allows specific demand to the person himself. In this research, the works stress variable was considered as an exogenous variable and was divided into four categories namely, stressors which are related to individuals, stressors which are related to groups, stressors which are related to organization, and stressors which are non-related to work. Those stress variables were consulted to both the job satisfaction variable as the intervening variable and the working spirit as the endogenous variable. State Polytechnic of Jember was the research object of this study. Involving 135 individuals, this research employed both lecturers and the engineering staffs as the sample of this research. Samples were taken using the stratified proportional random sampling method. This research employed Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) as the means of analysis through the help of AMOS program. Results of the research revealed that the stressors which were related to individuals, organization, as well as stressors which were non-related to work contributed significantly to the performance satisfaction of the officers at State Polytechnic of Jember. On the other hand, the stressors which were related to group did not affect the job satisfaction of the officers at State Polytechnic of Jember significantly. Other interesting findings also revealed that the stressors which were related to group and those which were non-related to work affected the spirit of the employees at State Polytechnic of Jember significantly, while stressors which were related to individuals and organization did not. In addition, the job satisfaction contributed significantly to the working spirit of the officers at State Polytechnic of Jember, respectively.

Keyword: stressor, job satisfaction, working spirit, Structural Equation Modelling (SEM), AMOS