The Performance of Medical Laboratory technician Based on situation Awareness and Psychological Capital with the Work engagement Mediation

Abstract

The result of laboratory examination in three districts of South Kalimantan, as much as 36,36% has good quality examination and 63,64% has not good. These facts prove that the performance of laboratory technician who do the analysis of the test material is still not good and the performance is influenced by organizational factors and individual workers. The purpose of this study was to analyze the performance of medical laboratory technician based on individual factors of situation awareness and psychological capital that can influence the performance with the work engagement mediation. This type of the research was an observational analytic study and cross sectional design with 150 subject samples. The result that the situation awareness has a significant effect on performance with regression coefficient 0.242 with p-value <0.001 or critical ratio value 3.5 bigger than critical t-statistic value at 95% with confident interval (≥1.96). Psychological capital has a significant effect on performance with unstandardized regression coefficient of 0,239 with p-value <0.001 or critical ratio value equal to 3,095 bigger than critical t-statistic value at 95% confident interval (≥ 1.96). Situation awareness and psychological capital have a positive effect on work engagement. The identification of influence relationships shows that the situation awareness and psychological capital affect the performance of medical laboratory technician and mediated by work engagement.