THE EFFECT OF MOTIVATION AND WORK ENVIRONMENT ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE AT A SHIPYARD COMPANY IN BATAM
Keywords:
Work Motivation, Work Environment, Employee Performance, Shipyard Industry, Human Resource ManagementAbstract
Purpose: Shipyard companies operate in physically demanding, safety-critical environments where employee performance depends heavily on both psychological drive and physical working conditions. This study analyzes the effect of motivation and work environment on employee performance at a shipyard company in Batam.
Methods: A quantitative causal design was used, with multiple linear regression applied to a sample of 147 employees.
Findings: Motivation has a positive and significant partial effect on employee performance (t = 5.754 > 1.655, Sig. = 0.000), work environment also has a positive and significant partial effect (t = 4.582 > 1.655, Sig. = 0.000), and the two variables jointly explain 78.9 percent of the variance in employee performance (F = 268.546 > 3.06, Sig. = 0.000; R-squared = 0.789).
Originality/value: The study contributes regression-based evidence from Indonesia's maritime shipyard sector, still scarce relative to office- and light-manufacturing settings, indicating that performance-improvement strategies should address motivational drivers and physical working conditions concurrently rather than treating either as sufficient on its own, with practical implications for human-resource management in labor-intensive maritime industries.
Received: 20/04/2026 Revised: 22/062026 Accepted: 15/07/2026
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