PERAN PERCEIVED WORKLOAD TERHADAP WORK ENGAGEMENT PADA KARYAWAN PT ”XYZ”

Abstract

Employees are a very important and necessary resource in the company. Companies need human resources with high work engagement to survive and not experience setbacks. Excessive task demands are one of the factors that form workload. Workload that is too high can cause a lack of work engagement in employees. This study aims to determine whether there is a relationship between perceptions of workload and work engagement in employees of PT “XYZ”. The hypothesis proposed in this study is that there is a negative relationship between perceptions of workload and work engagement in employees of PT “XYZ”. The method used in this research is correlational quantitative method, while the sampling is done using saturated sampling technique. The subjects in this study amounted to 110 employees who work actively at PT “XYZ”. Analysis of research data using Product Moment correlation from Karl Pearson. The results of the research data analysis showed there was a correlation of (rxy) 0.210 with p = 0.014 (p <0.05). This shows that there is a significant positive relationship between perceptions of workload and work engagement, thus this research hypothesis is rejected.