The Influence of Career Development and Self-Efficacy on Employee Performance with Job Satisfaction as a Mediation Variable

Employees, regardless of the nature of the business, are one of the main resources of a company. This research is based on the importance of HRM to improve employee performance which can be influenced by career development and self-efficacy with job satisfaction as a mediating variable. This research aims to determine and explain whether there is a partial influence between Career Development on Performance and Self-efficacy on Performance, as well as a mediating influence between Career Development and Self-efficacy on Performance through job satisfaction. The sample for this research was 150 employees of PT Great Giant Pineapple Central Lampung. Data were collected through questionnaires based on purposive sampling techniques and processed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with the help of AMOS software. The results of the research show that this research supports the proposed hypothesis, namely that career development has a positive and significant effect on the performance of PT Great Giant Pineapple employees, self-efficacy has a positive and significant effect on employee performance, job satisfaction has a positive and significant effect on employee performance, the role of job satisfaction mediates the effect of career development on employee performance has a positive and significant effect, job satisfaction mediates the effect of self-efficacy on employee performance. The results of this research have shown that it is important for companies to pay attention to and care about employee performance, because if the company does not care about employees, it is not impossible that these employees will not work optimally and employee performance in the company will also not be good.