@thesis{thesis, author={Destari Yuri}, title ={Pengaruh Kepuasan Kerja terhadap Kinerja Pegawai dengan Komitmen Organisasi sebagai Variabel Intervening pada Dinas Pertambangan dan Energi Provinsi Sumatera Utara}, year={2018}, url={}, abstract={Bureaucracy reform is a strategic step to build the state apparatus to be more efficient and effective in carrying out the general task of government and national development. To realize the Bureaucracy Reform program, it is necessary to pay attention to employee job satisfaction. Because employees who are satisfied with what they get from the organization will give their best ability and will continue to improve their performance. One of the most important factors in improving employee performance from human resources is organizational commitment. A high commitment makes individuals care about the fate of the organization and seeks to make the organization better. Job satisfaction will shape organizational commitment and so on organizational commitment will affect employee performance. The purpose of this study is to determine and analyze the effect of job satisfaction on employee performance through organizational commitment. The type of this research is descriptive quantitative and the nature of this research is explanatory research. The population in this study are 97 employees and the sample of this study is the entire population will be observed (census study). Data analysis using path analysis. The result of this research shows that the job satisfaction partially has a positive and significant effect to organizational commitment and employee performance. Partially organizational commitment has a positive and significant effect on employee performance. The result of path analysis is known that there is indirect and significant influence between job satisfaction to performance through organizational commitment.} }