1. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OF JOB
SATISFACTION AND THE SAFETY PERFORMANCE
AT PT. VIRCO (VIRGINIA INDONESIA RUBBER
COMPANY) IN PADANGSIDIMPUAN
Presented By :
Vicky Fadhendy Putri
(0810524038)
Thesis supervisor:
Dr. Rahmi Fahmi, SE. MBA
INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT
ECONOMIC FACULTY
ANDALAS UNIVERSITY
2013

2. Chapter I
Introduction
Background
Accidents commonly occur in organizational operations,
particularly in many manufacturing companies. There are certain
recognized factors which affect the occurrence of accidents. The
factors most consistently associated with job related injuries
include: environment, mood among workers, employee selection
practice, types of work procedures, role clarity, and job satisfaction
& stress (Personnel, 1991). In a similar study, (Sherry, 1992)
identified five major factors related to potential causes of
accidents, i.e. psychological, environmental, ergonomic, physical,
and stress.

3. Problem Statement
How Does Job Satisfaction
Has a significant Relationship
Between The Safety
performance of Employee in
PT. VIRCO Padangsidimpuan?

4. Chapter II
Review of The Literature
Job Satisfaction
 Job satisfaction is an attitude people have about
heir jobs. It results from their perception of their
jobs and the degree to which there is a good fit
between them as individuals and the organization
(Ivancevich et al. 2008).

5. Facets of Job Satisfaction
Factor Job Satisfaction:
Pay
Work Itself
Promotion Opportunities
Supervision
Co-Workers
Working Condition

6. Safety Performance
 Safety is the condition of a “steady state” of an
organization or place doing what it is supposed to do.
“What it is supposed to do” is defined in terms of public
codes and standards, associated architectural and
engineering designs, corporate vision and mission
statements, and operational plans and personnel
policies. For any organization, place, or function, large
or small, safety is a normative concept. It complies with
situation-specific definitions of what is expected and
acceptable.( Charles G. Oakes, 2009)

7. Review of Previous Studies
Chong W.Kim, Marjorie L.Mclnerney, and
Robert P.Alexander in The Coastal Business Journal
Vol. 1, number 1 have been developed a research
through the title of “Job Satisfaction as Related to
Safety Performance”.
This study contributes to examines employee
safety performance in regards to their job satisfaction
and its implications to managers for improving
employees safety performance through job redesign.

8. Conceptual Framework
Dependent Variable
Independent Variable
(X1)
Job Satisfaction
H1
(Y)
Safety Performance

9. Chapter III
Research Methods
Research Approach
 Quantitative research approach
 Data are collected by using questionnaire
Population and Sample
 Population
Population: Employees at PT. VIRCO Padangsidimpuan
 Sample size
obtained from 100 Employees

10. Conceptualization and Operational of Variables
Independent variables:
 Job Satisfaction
Dependent variable:
 Safety Performance
Data Collection Method
Questionnaire using Likert’s Scale
Data Analysis Method
 SPSS 16

11. DATA ANALYSIS METHOD
Reliability and Validity Test
Validity test
Use factor analysis in SPSS 16 software
factor loading 0.50 considered to meet minimal level,
considered as more important, > 0.50 considered as
practically significant (Sekaran, 2003).
Reliability test : use SPSS 16
value of Cronbach alpha 0.60 – 0.80 = reliable
value of Cronbach alpha 0.80 – 1,00 = very reliable
(Sekaran, 2003).

12. Chapter IV
ANALYSIS AND RESULT
Questionaires
Numbers
Distributed
Return
Processed
100
85
85
Response Rate
85

13. Descriptive of Items Respond for Each Variables
Job Satisfaction
No
Amount of Respondents
Dimensions
SDA
D
N
A
Total
Mean
SA
Facets of Job Satisfaction
Job Itself
3.92
1
2
3
4
My job is fun
1
23
50
11
11
70
4
17
85
53
85
I am enthusiastic about my job
3.92
85
1
I am satisfied with my current job
17
53
3.94
85
I felt a sense of pride in doing my job
3.98
15
Pay
5
6
7
I feel, I paid a fair amount for the work I do
I am satisfied with my chances for salary
increases
I get a fair bonus
3.84
3.60
85
1
9
27
40
8
3.53
85
1
5
24
36
19
1
6
36
38
6
3.79
85
3.49

14. Promotion
8
People advancing rapidly here as elsewhere
85
I am satisfied with my chances for promotion
9
3.32
10
There is little appreciation for those who
work here (r)
7
34
32
12
3
5
35
39
3
4
24
36
16
3.58
7
85
3.40
85
2.98
Supervision
11
12
13
My boss do justice to me
3.23
3
2
40
7
85
79
5
1
3.08
85
4
24
20
34
3
3.09
Relationship with Co-worker
14
15
16
3.80
85
I enjoy working with colleagues-my colleagues
There are too many quarrels and fight in the
workplace (r)
I like the people who work with me
Average
Source: Primary data processing
3.54
85
My boss is competent enough/capable of doing
his job
My boss show too little interest to the feelings
of subordinates (r)
33
3
16
58
8
10
18
28
24
6
13
49
17
3.84
85
5
3.66
85
3.91
3.57

15. Safety Performance
Amount of Respondents
No
Total
Dimensions
SD
D
N
A
SA
Wearing a safe Apparel
1
2
3
4
I feed comfort and safe when wearing
work clothes and equipment
I feel Free to move while wearing work
clothes
The state of Hair, and the dangerous
goods at work have saved well
performance
I wash my hand after holding the dirty
objects and smelly can demage my
health.
Mean
3.92
23
52
10
85
3.85
85
22
57
6
3.81
85
13
60
12
3.99
85
11
59
15
4.05

16. Protective equipment
5
6
7
8
9
10
I check the equipment before working.
I will not use the equipment work of
that is not fit to use.
The Company provides guidance to
use of the equipment work and
personal protective equipment as well
Companies put up signs or warning
sign in place that easily visible to all
employee
I understand the rules concerning
safety work has been run in
accordance with the provision of
Companies provide a team to oversee
the safety work
Average
3.97
9
48
28
85
4.22
85
14
52
19
4.06
85
16
52
17
4.01
85
21
75
7
3.84
85
22
51
12
22
56
7
3.88
85
3.82
3.94

17. Test Hypotheses
Pearson Correlations Relevant
Correlations
Keselamatan
Kerja
Kepuasan Kerja
Kepuasan Kerja
Pearson Correlation
1
Sig. (2-tailed)
N
Keselamatan Kerja
Pearson Correlation
Sig. (2-tailed)
N
.034
.754
85
85
.034
1
.754
85
85

18. Validity Test
No
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Questionnaires/ Indicators
Job Satisfaction
My job is fun
I am enthusiastic about my job
I felt a sense of pride in doing my job
I am satisfied with my current job
I feel, I paid a fair amount for the work I do
I am satisfied with my chances for salary
increases
I get a fair bonus
I am satisfied with my chances for promotion
9
People advancing rapidly here as elsewhere
10
There is little appreciation for those who work
here (r)
Factor
Loading
Validity
0.824
Valid
0.469
Not Valid
0.686
Valid
0.676
Valid
0.560
Valid
Valid
0.732
0.716
0.736
0.618
0.519
Valid
Valid
Valid
Valid

19. 11
My boss do justice to me
0.438
Not Valid
12
My boss is competent enough/capable of doing
his job
0.582
Valid
13
My boss show too little interest to the feelings
of subordinates (r)
0.477
Not Valid
14
I enjoy working with colleagues-my
colleagues
0.451
Not Valid
15
There are too many quarrels and fight in the
workplace (r)
0.505
Valid
16
I like the people who work with me
0.586
Valid

20. 1
2
Safety Performance
I feed comfort and safe when wearing work clothes and 0.805
equipment
0.820
I feel Free to move while wearing work clothes
Valid
Valid
3
The state of Hair, and the dangerous goods at work have 0.786
saved well performance
Valid
4
I wash my hand after holding the dirty objects and smelly can 0.765
demage my health.
Valid
5
I check the equipment before working.
0.758
Valid
6
I will not use the equipment work of that is not fit to use.
0.733
Valid
7
The Company provides guidance to use of the equipment
work and personal protective equipment as well
0.825
Valid
8
Companies put up signs or warning sign in place that easily
visible to all employee
0.873
Valid
9
I understand the rules concerning safety work has been run in 0.867
accordance with the provision of
Valid
10
Companies provide a team to oversee the safety work
0.879
Valid

21. Reliability Test
Variables
Cronbach's Alpha
Amount Questionnaires
Judgement
Job Satisfaction
0.751
12
Reliable
Safety
Performance
0.943
10
Very
Reliable

22. Chapter V
CONCLUSION, IMPLICATIONS, LIMITATIONS AND
RECOMMENDATIONS
Conclusion
 Job Satisfaction have low relation to impact Safety
Performance. But safety performance have a very stong
relation to impact job satisfaction Based on Test (R-Square). it
means that safety performance can be explained by job
satisfaction.
 Based on the result of the research, the employee of PT.
VIRCO Padangsidimpuan get safety performance from the job
satisfaction that apply in this company.

23. Implications
PT. VIRCO Padangsidimpuan, in order to fix their
weakness and pay more attention to job satisfaction in order to
increase the quality of company at all. This research found that the
independent variables have low relationship with dependent
variable. But have very strong significant impact of dependent
variable to independent variable, PT. VIRCO Padangsidimpuan
should give an more promotion to their employee in order to
increase the satisfaction of employee to make better quality of the
company.

24. Limitations
 Sample size.
 This research held only in PT. VIRCO (VIRGINIA
INDONESIA RUBBER COMPANY) Padangsidimpuan.
 Respondent are employee in PT. VIRCO.
 This research only used education and work experience

25. Suggestion Or Recommendations
For the Company
To be able to increase in giving a promotion based on
performance of employee. And than giving more protective equipment.
It will make the employee feel satisfied and safe with their job and
also will increase the company productivity in order to increase the
company performance and achieve the company vision and mission.
For Further Research
The number of respondents were only 85 respondents, it is
recommended for the further research to using more respondents,
in order to obtain more accurate results and also increase the
factors to be researched, so that further research could be helpful
both for themselves.

26. Thank you 