Pengaruh Karakteristik Pekerjaan dan Komitmen Kerja terhadap Prestasi Kerja Kader Posyandu di Kota Lhokseumawe Tahun 2014

ABSTRAK

Kader Posyandu merupakan salah satu petugas yang berasal dari masyarakat
yang difungsikan untuk membantu pelayanan masyarakat termasuk pelayanan
kesehatan. Keberadaan kader posyandu menjadi penting untuk mendukung upaya
pemberdayaan masyarakat bidang kesehatan. Prestasi kerja kader posyandu
didasarkan kepada keberhasilannya dalam menggerakkan masyarakat untuk
berpartisipasi aktif dalam pelayanan posyandu. Banyak faktor yang mendukung
prestasi kerja kader Posyandu antara lain komitmen kerja dan karakteristik
pekerjaan. Permasalahan prestasi kerja kader Posyandu juga masih menjadi masalah
di Kota Lhokseumawe.
Penelitian ini adalah penelitian survey dengan pendekatan explanatory
research yang dimaksudkan untuk menganalisis pengaruh karakteristik pekerjaan
dan komitmen kerja terhadap prestasi kerja kader posyandu di Kota Lhokseumawe
tahun 2014. Populasi penelitian seluruh kader posyandu di wilayah kerja Dinas
Kesehatan Kota Lhokseumawe, dan sampel terpilih sebanyak 87 orang. Metode
pengumpulan data dalam penelitian ini meliputi data primer dan data sekunder.
Analisa data menggunakan uji regresi logistik berganda pada taraf kepercayaan 95%.
Hasil penelitian menunjukkan menunjukkan 55,2% kader Posyandu di Kota
Lhokseumawe memiliki prestasi kerja kategori kurang. Berdasarkan karakteristik
pekerjaan diketahui bahwa keragaman keterampilan, jati diri tugas, otonomi dan

umpan balik termasuk kurang, sedangkan dilihat dari aspek tugas penting termasuk
kategori baik. Berdasarkan komitmen kerja mayoritas memiliki komitmen afektif
kategori baik, dan komitmen kontinuas serta normatif kategori kurang. Hasil uji
regresi logistik berganda menunjukkan variabel keragaman keterampilan, otonomi,
umpan balik dan komitmen afektif merupakan variabel yang memengaruhi prestasi
kerja kader Posyandu di Kota Lhokseumawe.
Disarankan agar melakukan advokasi untuk alokasi anggaran insentif khusus
bagi kader Posyandu guna mendorong dan menstimulan kemauan kader Posyandu
untuk meningkatkan prestasi kerjanya, dan optimalisasi peran dan fungsi kader
Posyandu

Kata Kunci : Karakteristik Pekerjaan, Komitmen Kerja dan Prestasi Kerja
Kader Posyandu

Universitas Sumatera Utara

ABSTRACT

A posyandu cadre is the person who comes from the common people; he is
functional to serve people in health service. The existence of posyandu cadres

becomes important in supporting people empowerment in the health field. Their
performance is based on their success in triggering people to actively participate in
posyandu service. There are many factors which support their perfomance, such as
work commitment and work characteristic, but it still becomes a proble in
Lhokseumawe.
The research used a survey method with an explanatory research approach
which was aimed to analyze the influence of work characteristic and work
commitment on posyandu cadres’s work performance at Lhokseumawe, in 2014. The
population was all posyandu cadres in the working area of the Health Services at
Lhokseumawe, and 87 of the were used as the samples. The data concisted of primary
and secondary data and analyzed by using multiple logistic regression at the
reliability level of 95%.
The result of th research showed that 55,2% of the respondents at
Lhokseumawe were in bad category. Based on work characteristic, it was found that
the variety of skill, personality, autonomy, feedback was in bad category, while the
aspect of important task was in good category. Based on the work commitment, it was
found that the affective commitment of the majority of respondents was in good
category, but continual and normative commitment was in bad category. The result of
multiple logistic regression analysis showed that the variables the variety of skill,
autonomy, feedback and the affective commitment were the variables which

influenced posyandu cadre’s work performance at Lhokseumawe.
It is recommended that advocacy should be carried out to allocate insentive
budget for posyandu cadres in order to encourage and to stimulate posyandu cadre’s
widh to improve their work performace, and their role and function should be
optimized.

Keywords : Work Characteristic, Work Commitment, and Work Performance of
Posyandu Cadres

Universitas Sumatera Utara