Judul: The influence of competency on employee’s performance of pt asuransi umum bumiputera muda 1967
Abstrak: Karyawan adalah aset yang penting bagi perusahaan yang digunakan untuk mencapai semua tujuan perusahaan. Pertumbuhan perusahaan tidak dapat lepas dari peran karyawan, dan yang paling penting dengan memiliki sumber daya manusia yang baik dan didukung dengan pengelolaannya yang baik. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis bagaimana pengaruh kompetensi terhadap kinerja karyawan tetap non manajerial divisi pemasaran PT Asuransi Umum Bumiputera Muda 1967. Metode analisis yang akan digunakan adalah Partial Least Square (PLS). Penelitian yang dilakukan menggunakan evaluasi pengukuran dan struktural menghasilkan kesimpulan bahwa kompetensi mempunyai pengaruh positif dan signifikansi nyata terhadap kinerja pegawai PT Asuransi Umum Bumiputera Muda 1967. Indikator terbesar yang mempengaruhi kompetensi terhadap kinerja adalah karakteristik pribadi. Pengaruh dan signifikansi dapat dilihat dari nilai beta konstruk kompetensi terhadap konstruk kinerja pegawai sebesar 13,15 di mana nilai beta tersebut lebih besar dari 1,96., Employees are important assets for a company to achieve the company’s objectives. Employees have role the company’s growth, and the should have supported by good human resources and good management. The purpose of this research was to analize the Influence of competency to non-managerial employees in marketing division of PT Asuransi Bumiputera Muda 1967. The analytical method to get the result was using Partial Least Square (PLS). The result of this research has tested by the Inner Model and Outer Model lead us to the conclusion that competency has a positive effect and obvious significancy to PT Asuransi Umum Bumiputera Muda 1967’s employee’s performance. The biggest indicator that had influenced the competency is traits compared with motives, skill, knowledge, and self concept. How much it bulid the influence can be seen from the beta value of competency construct to the performance construct where the value of 13.15 beta is greater than 1.96.
Keyword: kompetensi, kinerja, karyawan

Judul: Peran Penerapan Kompetensi Terhadap Kinerja Karyawan Di Pusat Perpustakaan Dan Penyebaran Teknologi Pertanian (PUSTAKA), Bogor.
Abstrak: Skills and knowledge owned by an employee to finish his or her job is one of the factors that can determine the quality and quantity of the job. Competency standart can help the company to know the quality of its employees so that the job given can be finished faster and better. Competency standart is a formula of competency needed to carry out job or task concerning the criteria of the job determined by industry or relevant profession association as well as other competent institutions. A good competency will lead to an effective performance. The lack of skills can be overcomed by employee development, whereas motivation can be created by suitable working environment itself. Organization must provide supporting leadership and incentive arranged well in order to give motivating environment. The element of human resources and governmental system which is flexible to the environment of change becomes more determining in the success of reaching the expected goal. Competency is an important factor for performing, however, only competency has not complied with the effective performance building. Performance is influenced by organization surrounding which involves the process and system. This research was done at Indonesian Center for Agricultural Library and Technology Dissemination Library Center and Agricultural Technology Disemination (PUSTAKA) Employees, Bogor. In this research, the subject was all employees of PUSTAKA office, Bogor. The technique of samples used was using sensus so that the sample in this research was the whole population - 88 employees. Data analysis in this research used SEM method (Structural Equation Model) by using PLS program. From the analysis result of two structural research models, it could be concluded that competency influenced the performance positively and significantly. In this research, the policy aslo played a role as moderator variable. The result showed that the policy mordernized the competency and performance. It meant that the higher the competency and high policy, the better the performance would be and vise versa. However, the higher the competency and low policy, the lower the performance would be. The treatment of moderator variable also showed that in path coeficien with negative score, it was shown that the higher the policy, the more decrease the competency which influenced the performance.
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Judul: Detoxification of Cassava’s Acid Hydrolyzate by Activated Carbon Method for Bioethanol Production
Abstrak: Cassava is one of natural resources for carbohydrate that also available for bioethanol production. Starch and fibers hydrolysis maybe conducted on acid condition. The restriction in acid hydrolysis is 5-hydroxymethyl furfural (HMF) and furfural formation, which inhibit yeast fermentation. This study applied two stages of detoxification, which are overliming and activated carbon adsorption methods for lowering HMF and furfural concentrations. In order to obtain tolerable amount in sugar solution, detoxification by activated carbon adsorption was done by concentration of 1%, 2.5%, 5% and 10% and duration of contact are 30 45 and 60 minutes. The results showed that overliming method decreased HMF and furfural concentrations 34.38% and 60.81%, respectively. Overliming followed by 5% activated carbon adsorption for 30 minutes produced the best sugar solution which has a lower HMF and furfural concentrations by 72.03% and 89.11%, respectively. Adsorption constants of HMF and furfural by 5% activated carbon were 0.044 g/min and 3,7 x 10-5 g/min, respectively. The concentration of ethanol produced was 5.00% (b/v) or 63.22% higher than obtained from detoxification by neutralization (NH4OH) which produced ethanol only 3.06%.
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