The Influence Coping Strategies on Employee Performance

Case Study of Students at University in Jakarta Indonesia

The problem faced by contract employees is uncertainty about the continuity of their work, which creates work pressure. Individuals who experience work pressure will take steps which are known as coping. This research aims to analyze the influence of individual employee coping choices on their performance. It is hoped that the research results can provide input for human resource management policies, especially in dealing with contract employees. The coping strategies studied consisted of problem-focused coping, emotion-focused coping and religious coping. The research was conducted on employee class students at Mercu Buana University, Jakarta, involving 100 respondents. The highest score of coping carried out by respondents was positive religious coping, followed by problem-based coping, emotion-based coping, and negative religious coping. The research results show that religious coping is positive, problem-based coping has a positive and significant effect on employee performance, and negative emotion-based coping also has a positive and significant effect on performance, respectively. Negative religious coping has a negative and significant effect on performance.