This study aims to analyze the effect of employee placement and work environment on job performance through employee work motivation. This research is explanatory that is unstructured and informal research with aim to get information about general nature of research problem. Population in this research is all employees at Staff General Personnel Army that is counted 100 employees and sampling technique used in this research is simple random sampling. Analyzer used is regression analysis and path analysis.
The results showed that the direct and indirect effect of employee placement on work performance that is equal to 0.257, while the magnitude of indirect influence of employee placement on work performance through the motivation of 0.486. The value of indirect influence is greater than the value of direct influence which gives the meaning that the motivation variable is able to mediate the placement of employees to the work performance. The direct influence of work environment on work performance is 0.282, whereas the indirect influence of work environment on job performance through motivation is 0,562. The value of indirect influence is greater than the value of direct influence which gives the meaning that the motivation variable is able to mediate the work environment to the work performance.