THE CORRELATION BETWEEN WORK ENVIRONMENT AND EMPLOYEE’S JOB SATISFACTION AMONG GENERATION Z

• Main Author: Nuri Syahida, Sarah
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/40997
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

A company both large and newly built is certainly running its business to achieve company goals. To achieve company goals, good performance is needed in the company itself. Achieving good performance will significantly depend on how the performance of employees in the company. Employee performance is closely related to an employee’s job satisfaction. Job satisfaction can be accomplished and fulfilled when some influence variables are met. Work Environment is one of the variables. Working conditions clearly have represented a component of job satisfaction (Sundstrom,1986). The work environment is where work is done, this can be seen as a combination of physical, virtual and social environments (Roth, Niemi, Lindholm and Loma, 2010).The appropriate work environment can fulfill employee job satisfaction will also depend on the type of employee itself. The type of employees can be classified by industry, the company itself, and also can classify based on generation. The generation that entering the workforce in the present is Generation Y that also known as Millennial generation, but now the newest young workers will enter the workforce which is Generation Z. Generation Z working in Indonesia is 16,140,025 peoples and this shows big number and great assets in the workforce. This research will examine the correlation of work environment with generation Z employee’s job satisfaction. Based on the test result, the author found that generation Z employee job satisfaction is 24% with 30 persons have low level of job satisfaction, 52% with 65 persons have standard level, and 24% with 30 persons generation Z employees have high level of job satisfaction. All of variable work environment in this research have positive correlation with job satisfaction with all the result of significant score are more than 0.005 and the variable that have more dominant impact to job satisfaction is virtual work environment with score of pearson correlation 0.513. Therefore, recommendation for company or organization is to give attention to condition of work environment that have significant impact to employees job satisfaction especially virtual work environment towards generation Z employees.