Surabaya as the third largest city in Indonesia, become more popular for its culinary industry from the
smallest scale of traditional warung until the high end scale of fine dining restaurant. The amount of the
restaurant business is gradually increase, this phenomenon makes a good advantage for the local people
especially the amount of job opportunity. In the other side, restaurant industries in Surabaya also facing the
high rivalry and competition among individual restaurant business. In order to survive from the competition ,
each business should have its own competitive advantage. Human resource is one of the most important
resource to gaining the competitive advantage, since it related with human being at the final result how
excellent was the planning process, human aspect will take a final decision for the result of a process. The
research is focusing on the relation between motivation and job satisfaction, the writer saw the phenomenon
in Pakuwon Food Festival, that some employee feel satisfy with their work, although the working pressure is
high enough to make someone resign from his job within 7 days of work. According to the pre-interview, the
writer found that the employee feel comfortable with their work because of their workmates is very social and
feel like a new small family in working environment. This research used quantitative approach for the data
process, and simple linear regression for the analysis. The result of the research is that job satisfaction is
significantly affected by motivation.

Creator(s)

• (08-002) Endo Wijaya Kartika
• (01-027) Thomas Stefanus Kaihatu

Contributor(s)

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Publisher

Universitas Kristen Petra; 2010

Language

Indonesian

Category

jou – Journal

Sub Category

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Source

Jurnal Manajemen dan Kewirausahaan, Vol.12, No. 1, Maret 2010: 100-112; Endo Wijaya Kartika (08-002), Thomas S. Kaihatu (01-027)

Subject(s)

• EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION
• JOB SATISFACTION

File(s)

• jiunkpe-ns-jou-2010-08-002-24031-motivasi_kerja-resource1.pdf