The Effect of Job Satisfaction on Employee Performance Through Employee Involvement as Mediator Variables at Snack Food Distributors in Surabaya, Sidoarjo, and Gresik

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the performance, job satisfaction, and employee engagement in the retail distributor. The main theory and previous researchers used in this study are Performance by Na-Nan et al. (2018), Employee engagement by Schaufeli et al. (2022, as cited in Sidharta, 2018) and Job satisfaction by Spector (1997, as cited in Meier & Spector, 2015). The method used in this research is Structural Equation Modeling with Partial Least Square. The program used is SmartPLS 3.3.3. This research was conducted in a snack food retail distributor company located in Surabaya, Sidoarjo and Gresik with a sample of one hundred and ten respondents. The results of this study are job satisfaction has a significant but not significant effect on employee performance, employee involvement has a significant effect on employee performance, job satisfaction has a significant effect on employee engagement and employee involvement is the variable that mediates job satisfaction on employee performance.