PENGARUH SISTEM INSENTIF TERHADAP SEMANGAT KERJA

Abstract

PT Kutai Timber Indonesia is a company engaged in the processing of forest products i.e. wood. The company in timber industry is demanded to be more productive in order to meet demand, either domestically or internationally. The role of the company's employees is important since they are the major drivers for the smoothness and performance of the company. Therefore, it is necessary to consider the factors that affect the employee morale such as good incentive system. PT Kutai Timber Indonesia implements an incentive system known as the welfare program to support better employee morale. The problems at PT Kutai Timber Indonesia are the high turnover of employees. It can be seen from the increasing number of the percentage in the turnover rate in 2009-2013 with the average of 14.6% above the tolerable standard (10%). In addition, anxiety frequent happens in the work due to job rotation and role conflict due to improper job or lack of clarity regarding the work procedures, so that employees feel confused in doing the jobs. These things show problems in employee spirit. To overcome these, the company needs to improve the stimulating factors of the employee morale, among others through incentive system. This research used quantitative researach design by explanation method. The population in this study was all permanent employees at production department of PT Kutai Timber Indonesia in total of 1045 people. The sampling techniques applied stratified random sampling with proportional type. From the calculation, 290 people were taken as the research samples. The analytical tool used was simple linear regression analysis. The test results of the coefficient of linear regression analysis showed that incentive system (X) affected employee morale (Y) at production department of PT Kutai Timber Indonesia