Antecedents and consequences of Indonesia private university lecturer’s job satisfaction

This study intended to determine antesendents and consequences of private university lecturers’s job satisfaction. Through the positive effect of the work environment, jobs, compensation, coworkers to job satisfaction and the positive effect of job satisfaction to work commitment. The background because as an organization, private university needs to have a competitive advantage. To achieving competitive advantage by qualified lecturers as human resources. Lecturers who have organizational commitment are expected show the best performance. The study was conducted with quantitative methods using questionnaires as a data collection tools using 5 likert scale. The questionnaires were distributed to200 lecturers from three private university with more than 10.000 students in Kopertis Region 3 Jakarta, Indonesia who had worked for at least five years and had a minimum Academic Assistant Expert and Lecturer Certification from the Government. Using convenience random sampling. Then, response rateare193 questionnaires that can be processed. Data processing using SEM-PLS. The results show that jobs, compensation, coworkers, work positively effected on job satisfaction. While work environment has not positively affect job satisfaction. Further, job satisfaction positively effected on work commitment. The research contribution is expected to provide input for university managers to manage organization commitment through lecturer job satisfaction.