Analysis of the Effect of Work Motivation on Employee Performance: Systematic Literature Review

A person's work motivation can be influenced by how his empowerment is implemented by the company, how the condition of his management of the company's organization becomes a suitable place for the growth of employee engagement, and the existence of good communication so that it is maintained and the creation of motivation by describing what workers should do, about the level of work performance that can be achieved and providing input to improve employee performance. This paper aims at a comprehensive review of work motivation toward employee performance. The data collection used in this study used the PRISMA method with 3 databases, namely harzing's publish or perish Google Scholar, Garuda journals, and Proquest with a period of the last 5 years, articles that can be accessed so that the articles collected are 335. Identifying, screening, and obtaining results that match the inclusion criteria and exclusion criteria, the results of 34 journals were obtained by the eligibility standards. The results showed that 18 journals said work motivation had a positive and significant effect, 2 journals showed work motivation did not affect performance, 13 journals showed mediation or intervening variables and 1 journal showed motivation as moderation.