Judul: Peran Kepuasan Kerja dan Kepemimpinan terhadap Kinerja Pegawai Negeri Sipil (PNS) di Dinas Komunikasi, Informatika dan Kehumasan DKI Jakarta
Abstrak: In this era, Government, both central and local, is expected to be accountable, competitive, transparent, hospitable, and performance improvement oriented. Therefore, the factor of human resources (HR), civil servants (PNS), is the key to success. PNS job satisfaction is one of very important factor to obtain an optimal performance. When a person feels satisfy in his work, then the work will be done with a responsible spirit. But in fact, in Indonesian, civil servant job satisfaction has not reached to the maximum level. Besides job satisfaction, other factors that affect the performance is the role of leadership. At a government organization, success or failure in the performance of duties and governance, influenced by leadership and supported by adequate governmental organization capacity. To implement regional autonomy, Jakarta Provincial Government through the Department of Communication, Informatics and Public Relations of Jakarta specifically addressing one of the aspects of human resource management (HRM) in order to improve performance. So, it is necessary to determine the role of job satisfaction and leadership in improving the performance. Based on these problems, the aims of this study are: (1) to analyze the effect of job satisfaction and leadership role on the performance of civil servants (PNS) in the Department of Communication, Informatics and Public Relations of Jakarta, (2) to analyze the indicators that reflect the dominant job satisfaction, leadership role and performance of civil servants (PNS) in the Department of Communication, Informatics and Public Relations of Jakarta. Research takes the Department of Communication, Informatics and Public Relations, City Hall as the sample. The method used is purposive sampling method. The number of samples in this study is 70 civil servants. Data analysis uses SEM (Structural Equation Model) with the approach of PLS (Partial Least Square). Based on the analysis conducted on the two models of research, it is known that the role of leadership has a positive effect on employee performance directly. Then, the role of leadership also has a positive effect on job satisfaction. Thus, it can be interpreted that there is no direct influence between a leadership role on employee performance through job satisfaction.
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Judul: Peran Gaya Kepemimpinan dan Budaya Organisasi terhadap Kinerja Aparatur Pemerintah Kabupaten Padang Lawas Utara
Abstrak: Human resources of organization is a vital asset because of its role in the implementation of the strategy is very important, which is the subject of implementing organizational strategy. They have potential as ideas, thoughts, experties, feelings, desires, educational background, age, sex and various other things that heterogeneous, which if their potentials brought into an organization can be utilized and optimized in carrying out the work to achieve organizational goals. One of the things that must be considered in the implementation of the work, namely the achievement of good performance, accordance with the applicable performance standards and desired by the organization, and in accordance with the vision and mission of the organization. However, that all the civil servants can achieved the desired performance, many factors that can influence it,such as leadership styles, organizational culture, compensation, motivation, work climate, organizational commitment, and so forth. This study will only discuss about leadership styles and organizational cultural factors that may effect the performance of the civil servants. The appropriate leadership style to the situation and condition of the organization, civil servants will be more excited in performing their duties and obligations as well as having their needs fulfilled expectations. Good and condusive organizational culture to an organization can aslo affect the civil servants in their activities as well as directly affecting their performance. This research was done at Local Government of North Padang Lawas, North Sumatera. In this research, the subject was all local government civil servants of North Padang Lawas, North Sumatera. The technique of samples used was cluster purposive sampling so that the sample in this research was 38 clusters (SKPD) in which of every clusters were taken as the sample. Data analysis in this research used SEM method (Structural Equation Modeling) by using LISREL program. From the analysis result structural research models, it could be concluded that leadership styles influenced the performance positively and significantly. Organizational cultures influenced both the leadership styles and performance negatively also unsignificantly. It meant that the higher leadership style, the better performance would be and vise versa. However, the organizational cultures, will not give significant effect on both leadership style and performance.
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Judul: Transesterlflkasl Minyak Goreng Bekas untuk Produksi  Metll Ester
Abstrak: The increasingly public awareness about food safety on used frying oil and the increasingly serious environmental destruction have made biodiesel from used frying oil to become an alternative fuel for replacing diesel fuel position in most conventional diesel engines. Transesterification of used frying oil with methanol, in the presence of 1% sodium , hydroxide catalyst (base on weight of oil) was applied in this work.
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