Economy

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of locus of control, communication, organizational culture on employee performance with job satisfaction as intervening variable on KPP Pratama Manado employees. The result of research shows that 1) locus of control have positive and significant effect to job satisfaction 2) communication has positive and significant effect to job satisfaction, 3) organizational culture have positive and significant effect to job satisfaction, 4) locus of control has negative and insignificant effect on employee performance, 5) communication has positive and significant effect on employee performance, 6) organizational culture have positive and insignificant effect to employee performance, 7) job satisfaction have positive and significant effect to employee performance. Keywords: Locus of Control, Communication, Organizational Culture, Job Satisfaction, Employee Performance

Consumer play an important role in modern retail business. Without consumer, the modern retail business can’t survive. The individual consumer has their own set of preferences and determination of these is based upon culture, education, and individual tastes. Supermarket must identify what consumer want because in Manado consumer face a lot of choice in selecting supermarket. This research purpose is to analyzed factor that influence consumer preferences in supermarket selection, identify which supermarket people choose the most and each supermarket key strength.This research used the Analythical Hierarchy Process (AHP) in processing the data. Population in this research is people in Manado who has experience in shopping at Freshmart, Multimart, and Hypermart. The sample of this research is 50 respondents of simple random sampling. The result have shown the most criterion that influence consumer when selecting the supermarket is product quality and brand image is the least criterion...