The Relationship Between Intrinsic Motivation Dimensions and Job Performance among Employees in Majlis Perbandaran Alor Gajah (MPAG), Melaka, Malaysia

Abstract

The study looks at the relationship between the competency and autonomy aspects of intrinsic motivation in relation to an employee's job performance. The objectives of this study are to identify the correlation between intrinsic motivation dimensions towards job performance and to determine which factor of intrinsic motivation most influence the job performance. The population of this research was 356 employees in Majlis Perbandaran Alor Gajah (MPAG), Melaka regardless of their position. In this study, simple random sampling was used because it is most suitable and capable to obtain the sample of elements. Findings of the study show that, job performance has a positive, medium, and significant relationship at the 0.05 level with competency with r value of .405. Following by the relationship between job performance and autonomy is moderate with positive r value of .366. Hence, it was found that all the variables examined were the factors that contributing to job performance among the employees at MPAG.