PENGARUH KARAKTERISTIK INDIVIDU KARAKTERISTIK ORGANISASI DAN KARAKTERISTIK PEKERJAAN TERHADAP KEPUASAN KERJA PEGAWAI DINAS PERTANIAN KOTA PARIAMAN

Abstract

The paradigm of public sector management has been shifted from new public management (NPM) to public value management (PVM).  Public value management focused on how to build the relationship with the society as constituent of government. Therefore, every aspect of the management, including human resources management, has to be revisited, such as job satisfaction. Thus, this study aim to investigate the relationship between Individual, Organization, and Job characteristic on Job Satisfaction in public sector organization. By using 90 respondents working in the Dinas Pertanian Kota Pariaman, we find that organization and job characteristic has a positive significant relationship with job satisfaction.  In addition, this finding indicate that two-factor theory partially can explain this phenomena. Therefore, the evidence from this study suggest that organization has to improve the organization and job characteristics in order to get the higher job satisfaction among employees.  tion, this finding indicate that haracteristic has a positive significant relationship with job ssatisfcation.  sektor le (h

Keyword         : Individual Characteristics and organizational characteristics of Job Characteristics of  job satisfaction