Work Competency and Job Training as Determinants of Employee Performance: Evidence from Indonesian Manufacturing
Keywords:
work competency, job training, employee performance, human resource management, Indonesian manufacturingAbstract
This study examines the partial and simultaneous associations of work competency and job training with employee performance at PT. Ustegra, an Indonesian private manufacturing firm that reported declining internal performance indicators during 2016-2018. A quantitative cross-sectional survey was conducted using structured Likert-scale questionnaires administered to 30 randomly selected employees from a population of 157. The 30 distributed questionnaires were returned in usable form and analyzed with simple and multiple linear regression in SPSS Version 26 after validity, reliability, normality, multicollinearity, and heteroscedasticity checks. The bivariate results show that work competency is not significantly associated with employee performance, while job training is also not significant in the simple model. In the simultaneous model, neither work competency nor job training reaches statistical significance, and the joint model is likewise not significant, although the predictors account for 21.2% of adjusted variance in employee performance. Accordingly, the study does not provide statistical evidence that competency and job training, as measured here, explain employee performance at PT. Ustegra. The findings should therefore be interpreted as exploratory and context-specific, and future studies should employ larger samples, broader predictor sets, and longitudinal designs.
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