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The Mediating Role of Work Engagement in Relationship between Workplace Fun and Meaning of Work toward Job Satisfaction of Millennial Worker in Banda Aceh City

The goal of this study is to examine and analyze the direct effect of workplace fun and the meaning of work toward job satisfaction and the indirect effect of workplace fun and the meaning of work toward job satisfaction through work engagement. The population was the millennial workers in Banda Aceh city, Indonesia, and the sample was taken with purposive sampling technique. There was a total of 203 online questionnaires collected. This research used the structural equation modeling (SEM) method to process and analyze the data, and the findings are: (i) workplace fun has no significant effect on work engagement, (ii) meaning of work significantly affects work engagement, (iii) workplace fun significantly affects job satisfaction, (iv) meaning of work does not significantly affect job satisfaction, (v) work engagement has a significant effect on job satisfaction, (vi) work engagement does not mediate in explaining the effect of workplace fun on job satisfaction, and (vii) work engagement becomes a full mediation in explaining the effect of meaning of work on job satisfaction. So from these results, we can conclude that the model of increasing job satisfaction is a function of increasing work plan fun and work engagement which will directly affect the increase in job satisfaction and the function of increasing meaning of work which will indirectly affect job satisfaction through work engagement. Academically, this model can be developed by further researchers by adding moderating variables such as age or working experience. They can also see a difference between millennials living in urban and rural areas.