Jurnal Ilmiah Manajemen Kesatuan
Vol. 14 No. 1 (2026): JIMKES Edisi January 2026

The Effect of Discretionary Bonuses on Employee Performance through Organizational Justice and Agency Cost

Dewi, Mariana Sari (Unknown)
Leniwati, Driana (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
26 Jan 2026

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the effect of discretionary bonuses on employee performance through the mediating role of distributive justice, procedural justice, and agency cost in a state-owned enterprise subsidiary operating in port equipment maintenance services. The study employed a quantitative approach using census sampling of 110 employees. Data analysis used SEM-PLS through SmartPLS 4.0. Results showed that discretionary bonus has a positive significant effect on distributive justice (β=0.679), distributive justice has a positive significant effect on procedural justice (β=0.500), procedural justice has a negative significant effect on agency cost (β=-0.349), agency cost has a negative significant effect on employee performance (β=-0.221), and distributive justice, procedural justice, and agency cost serially mediate the relationship between discretionary bonus and employee performance with complementary partial mediation pattern (β=0.026). The research model explained 60.8% of variance in employee performance. This study concludes that discretionary bonus effectiveness depends on employees’ fairness perception, thus its implementation should consider distributive and procedural justice principles to suppress agency cost and improve performance.

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Abbrev

jimkes

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Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance Social Sciences

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Jurnal Ilmiah Manajemen Kesatuan (JIMKES) dikelola dan diterbitkan oleh Lembaga Penelitian dan Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat (LPPM) Institut Bisnis dan Informatika Kesatuan bekerjasama dengan Fakultas Bisnis dan Fakultas Vokasional IBI ...