Analysis of Economic Attitude and Working Satisfaction on Employees’ Productive Working Behavior at Ikat Bandar Center in Kediri

Abstract

The researcher is intended to analyze the strategy and ability of SMEs in improving human resources and developing a concept of productive working behavior measurement. The study aims at examining antecedent and mediation of working satisfaction as a consequence contribution of employer’s productive working behavior. It employs economic attitude and working satisfaction variables as antecedent variable which plays pivotal role in improving productive working behavior. The present study employs survey method. Meanwhile, the sample is 150 employers of Ikat Bandar. It examines 4 hypotheses. The data is both nominal and continuum (interval, ratio, and ordinal) measured by exogenous and endogenous variables indicators. According to SEM (Structural Equation Modelling) data analysis with LISREL application program, the findings indicate that: (1) economic attitude has a positive effect on working satisfaction; (2) economic attitude has a positive effect on productive working behavior; (3) working satisfaction has a positive effect on employees’ productive working of Ikat Bandar Center in Kediri, and (4) economic attitude has a positive effect on productive behavior through employees’ working satisfaction at Ikat Bandar Center in Kediri.