Can Job Passion and Job Talent Really Affect to Job Satisfaction and Performance?

Abstract

Job passion and job talent are two interesting issues to be observed in the human resource management studies, especially related to organizational behaviour field. The aims of this study are to explore the associations among job passion, job talent, job satisfaction, and performance of employees. It is an explanatory study. The study subjects are consisted of all Widyaiswara (particurall teachers for Indonesia Government employees). Data are collected by using two type of questionnaries and data collection is conducted using census technique of 56 respondents working in the government education and training institutions in the East Kalimantan province, Indonesia. Partial Least Square model analysis is used to analyze this research and answer some hypotheses. Results indicate that in public organizations or government agencies, especially for Widyaiswara as educators and trainers in government institutions, job passion and job talent have positive but not significant enough influence to employees performance. However, job passion and job talent only give positive and significant influence to job satisfaction of employees or Widyaiswara itself. In addition, job satisfaction did not significantly affect the employees’ performance in government agencies especially in the government training institutions in East Kalimantan Province. It means that although there is an increase in job satisfaction, it is not necessarily able to improve performance of the employees, additionally relatively by considering other factors that can affect the employees’ performance at government institutions or public organizations.

Keywords: Job Passion, Job Talent, Job Satisfaction, Performance