DOI: 10.36347/sjebm.2018.v05i01.008

Pages: 62-75

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of ability and work environment on employee performance through employee motivation. This explanatory research is an unstructured and informal research with the aim to get information about the general nature of the research problem. The population in this study is all civil servants Staff Personnel Army that is as much as 45 employees. The sampling technique used in this research is census sampling technique that is the number of samples as much as the total population of 45 employees. Analyzer used is regression analysis and path analysis. The result of the research of the influence of the variable of the ability to the employee performance variable is 0.315, the influence of the working environment variable to the employee performance variable is 0.233, the influence of the variable of the capability to the employee motivation variable is 0,539, the influence of the work environment variable to the motivation variable, the variable influence of the motivation to the employee performance variable 0,598, direct influence of ability variable and work environment variable to employee performance variable equal to 0,748, indirect effect of variable ability and work environment variable to employee performance variable equal to 0,447. Then the result of analysis of motivation variable as intervening variable can be proved that motivation variable able to give indirect influence on variable ability to employee performance and work environment variable to employee performance.