WORK STRESS: ANTESEDENT VARIABLES AND ITS IMPACT ON EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION AND PERFORMANCE (Case Study at the University of Muhammadiyah Jember)

Abstract

The impact of work stress is decreased work motivation and employee performance. Work motivation is needed by individual employees as an encouragement to create work passion. Employee performance arises as an effective response to work tasks performed by employees. High workload will cause stress on employees. Job stress is caused by work conflict, workload, work environment and leadership influence. This research is intended to test the antenene variables of work stress on work motivation and employee performance as dependent variables. The results of this study indicate that the first hypothesis is that the work conflict variable has a positive and significant effect on work stress . The second hypothesis shows that the workload variable has a positive and significant effect on work stress. Whereas in the third hypothesis the results of the study indicate that the work environment variables have a significant and significant effect on work stress. The fourth hypothesis shows that the leadership variable has no significant effect on employee work stress . While the fifth hypothesis is that the work stress variable does not significantly influence work motivation . The sixth hypothesis proves that the variable that work motivation has a positive and significant effect on employee performance . Hypotheses to seven proving that variable work stress effect and are not significant to Performance employees. Keywords: Work Conflict, Workload, Work Environment, Leadership, Work Stress, Work Motivation, Employee Performance