Mediating Role of Discipline: Human Relation and Motivation as Antecedent of Employee Job Satisfaction

The manufacturing sector has been acknowledged as the main contributor to nationwide GDP in previous years.Thus, organizations within the manufacturing industry need to maintain the company and its workforce's performance, which can be attained through employee satisfaction.The purpose of this study is not only to determine the direct effect of human relations and motivation on employee satisfaction but also to examine the indirect effect of the mediating role from discipline to employee satisfaction at the production unit in PT.WSU.The respondents are all 105 employees at the production unit, and this study uses a saturated sampling technique.Primary data were collected through online questionnaires and analyzed with structured equation modelling partial least square.The result showed that human relations and motivation directly affected employee satisfaction; discipline complementary mediates the effect of human relations on job satisfaction and discipline also complementary mediates the role of the effect from motivation to job satisfaction.The implication of this study to both literature and practical is to give deeper insight into managing and retaining employee job satisfaction through its antecedent variables.