This study aims to analyze the influence of compensation, benefits, and motivation on employee performance from the perspective of the Ability–Motivation–Opportunity (AMO) theory. The research adopts a qualitative approach using a literature review method by examining relevant national and international journal articles as well as academic books published between 2020 and 2025. The findings indicate that compensation and benefits serve as strategic human resource management practices that significantly affect employee performance, primarily through enhancing work motivation. Motivation acts as a key mediating mechanism that links compensation and benefits to employee performance, while opportunity ensures that employees’ abilities and motivation are translated into productive work behavior. Within the AMO framework, the integration of ability, motivation, and opportunity is essential for achieving sustainable employee performance. This study contributes theoretically by explicitly incorporating the role of benefits into the AMO perspective and offers practical implications for organizations in designing fair, competitive, and performance-oriented compensation and benefit systems.
Copyrights © 2026