Performance improvement model in a manufacturing company: job satisfaction as mediator

Abstract

This study’s goal is to determine the effect of work placement and work discipline on performance with job satisfaction as an intervening variable among a manufacturing company during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study design is causal-comparative with a quantitative approach with 100 respondents. The study's findings indicated that work placement had a direct impact on performance, work discipline had a direct impact on performance, job satisfaction had a direct impact on performance, work discipline had a direct impact on job satisfaction, and work placement had a direct impact on job satisfaction. Work discipline did not significantly have an indirect effect on performance.