Implementation of Incentive and Career Development of Performance with Motivation as an Intervening Variable

Jufrizen Jufrizen (Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Muhammadyah Sumatera Utara, Medan 20238, Indonesia)
Delyana Rahmawany Pulungan

Proceedings of Annual International Conference Syiah Kuala University - Social Sciences Chapter
Vol 7 (2017): 7th AIC in conjuction ICMR 2017 Universitas Syiah Kuala October 2017

The aim of this research is to find out how the influence of incentive, and career development on performance with motivation as the intervening variable. The population of this research is lecturers of University of Muhammadyah Sumatera Utara (UMSU). Sample which is taken from all faculties in UMSU so the total sample size used for this research was 300 respondents, taken by using accidental sampling method. The data was taken by questionnaire method and the data analysis method is using path analysis with SPSS. The results shows that (1) incentive has a significant relationship with motivation and performance of UMSU’s lecturers (2) career developments has an insignificant relationship with motivation and performance of UMSU’s lecturers (3) motivation act as an intervening variable which is mediating the relationship between incentive and career development with performance of UMSU’s lecturers.