The relationship between motivational factor and job performance among non-executive staff at Jabatan Akauntan Kuching, Sarawak/ Shamimi Amira Samsol Kamal

This research was conducted to find out the relationship between motivational factors and job performance among non-executive employees at Jabatan Akauntan Kuching, Sarawak. The type of research that conducted was correlational research and using convenience as sampling technique. The independent variables are salary, work environment and job security meanwhile the dependent variable is job performance. This research involved 90 non-executive staff of Jabatan Akauntan Kuching, Sarawak as respondents of the survey. The questionnaire that has been used in this study was adopted from Conrad et. Al (1999), Bushiri (2014), De Witte (2000) for each independent variables and Borait et.al (1975) for dependent variable. Besides, the Pearson correlation
was conducted in order to investigate the association between salary, work environment and job security with job performance. Based on the findings, the results indicated that there was strong, significant and positive relationship between salary (r=.534), work environment (r=.643) and job security (r=.603) with job performance. This indicates that the employee’s motivation has influenced their job performance positively. It is recommended for future researcher could conduct the same study in private sector to get difference perspective toward motivational factors since this research was conducted at
government sector.