The correlation between work motivation and job satisfaction of the academic staffs

Work motivation is one important factors of job satisfaction. This research aims to determine the correlation between work motivation and job satisfaction of the academic staffs. The research subjects consisted of 40 academic staffs who have already worked for at least 1 year in University X Yogyakarta. Those subjects were chosen by simple random sampling technique. In addition, work motivation and job satisfaction scales were used to collect the data. Pearson’s product moment analyzed the data of this research. The results show that the coefficient between work motivation and job satisfaction is 0.689 with a significance level of 0.000 (p