Factors Affecting Work Motivation (Empirical Study on Administrative Staff of Tarutung State College of Christian)

This article presents a summary of the results of study which aimed to determine the effect of work ability, religiosity, organizational justice, and work context on work motivation, with the hypothesis that there is a positive direct effect of work ability (X1) on work motivation, there is a positive direct effect of religiosity (X2 ) towards work motivation, there is a positive direct effect of organizational justice (X3) on work motivation, and there is a positive direct effect of the work context (X4) on work motivation (Y). The results of the study concluded: 1) The contribution of work ability to work motivation is 17.30%, with the path coefficient (ρyx1) = 0.416, the value of sig. 0.012 <0.05, meaning that Ho is rejected, Ha is accepted. 0.608> 0.05 means that Ho is accepted, Ha is rejected. Contribution of work context to work motivation is 24.50% with path coefficient (ρyx4) = 0.495, sig value. 0.035 <0.05 thus Ho is rejected, Ha is accepted. The implication of the research results is, for improving work motivation of the staff, give the opportunity to employees to improve their ability to work with training in their respective fields of work, improve religiosity, and give training in understanding the context of each work. While the organizational justice factor (X3) has a weak impactingtowards the respondents.