The relationship between non-financial rewards (job enrichment and employee recognition) and job satisfaction among support staff at Jabatan Alam Sekitar Sarawak/ Winney John

This study was conducted at Jabatan Alam Sekitar Sarawak. Jabatan Alam Sekitar Sarawak is one of the government sector is located in Kuching. The purpose of this study was to find out the relationship between non-financial rewards and job satisfaction among support staff at Jabatan Alam Sekitar Sarawak. There are two aspect of non-financial rewards which are job enrichment and recognition toward job satisfaction. The main instrument used for this study was the questionnaire that consisted by three sections. The questionnaire was distributed to 100 participants. However, only 90 questionnaire that return back. That means from 100 participants only 90 participants respond to the questionnaires which it is equivalent 90.0%. The sampling technique for this research is convenient sampling. Which is this sampling the probability of selecting individuals is unknown. The result of this study was analysed by using Statistical Package for Social Science version 22 (SPSS). Based on the results, both of the independent variables, Recognition and Job Enrichment have positive relationship with Job Satisfaction. Recognition shows a very significant, strong positive relationship toward Job Satisfaction with (r=.552**). Meanwhile, the result revealed that Job Enrichment also shows very significant, moderate positive relationship towards Job Satisfaction with results (r=.661**). Thus, it is proven that support staff at Jabatan Alam Sekitar Sarawak are accepted the Recognition and Job Satisfaction can effected their Job Satisfaction.