The aim of this study is to examine the relationship of emotional spiritual quotient and employment status to performance either individually or jointly. Variables of emotional spiritual quotient and employment status serve as independent variables while the dependent variable is performance. The study was conducted on randomly selected 100 employees of Indonesia Port Corporation II in Surabaya Indonesia. The study quantitatively reveals that there is a positive significant relationship among variables under the following distribution of coefficient of correlation: emotional spiritual quotient to performance = 0. 639, employment status = 0.552, and when tested together it produces coefficient of correlation = 0.932 and coefficient of determination = 0.868 indicating the existence of other 13.2% variables not including in the model affecting performance within the Indonesian state-owned corporation