Work Motivation in Mediating Emotional Intelligence to Improve Employees’ Job Performance of State-Owned Enterprise in Port and Maritime Management

Abstract

This study tested the correlation between emotional intelligence on job performance and mediated by work motivation of the employees of State-Owned Enterprise in Port and Maritime Management at Medan City. 60 respondent of State-Owned Enterprise in Port and Maritime Management at Medan City has selected according to the number of the enterprise. Structural Equation Modelling was conducted to analyze the data to obtain both a direct and indirect relationship between emotional intelligence and job performance. The result shows that emotional intelligence significantly and positively affects the employees' work performance, where emotional intelligence also significantly and positively affects the employees' job performance. However, the study showed that emotional intelligence would directly influence the employees' job performance without mediating by the employees' work performance.