Judul: Peran Komunikasi Antar Karyawan Terhadap Motivasi
Abstrak: The ability to compete is the main issue in modern organization in order to maintain the existence of the organization. To make the organization stronger, human resources have to keep their competency and performance because these two factors build the organisation’s continuation. This research’ goals are (1) To identify communication among employees at CV. ABC Bogor Chapter, (2) To analyse the influence of communication factor among the employees to the employer’s motivation at CV. ABC Bogor Chapter. There are 5 of 6 communication variables that have strong communication influence to the company which are: empathy, supportiveness, positive ness and equality. Meanwhile openness does not have a real correlation. By communication, the manager will know how far their potential so they could improve it. As for the company, could make an assessment concerning the workers’ motivation. Supportive condition to the motivation to be responsible, cooperative, and hard working have strong effect on employees’ motivation. Equality, empathy and positive ness correlate with the motivation to be responsible. Meanwhile, openness describes no association. Issues to be fixed from the openness are: the acceptance to the advices and critics, reportance to something considered right, reports of working issue to the management and openness of problems among workers. The company must act to anticipate the condition well by occuring a Basic Leadership Training or Team Building. Based on the analyse result, there are some factor that correlate to the employees’ motivation. They are: relation among workers, the company’s regulation and policy, relationship between employer and employees and working atmosphere. Compensation variable does not have real effect to the motivation. Respondents claim that they are less satisfied by the salary they earned so far. The incentive and facility given by the company are less sufficient. Due to that problem, the management needs to make new policy about compensation.
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Judul: Faktor-faktor Komunikasi yang Berhubungan dengan Motivasi untuk Meningkatkan Kinerja Organisasi (Studi Kasus di Pusdiklat Pegawai Departemen Komunikasi dan Informatika Jakarta Barat)
Abstrak: This research attempts to answer the questions of communication factors such as characteristics of personality, human relations, communication organizational have correlation with officials motivation to improvement organization activity. This research was done using survey research method and analyzed of software SPSS version 12.00, statistical method namely Chi-Square and Spearman-Rank test to see correlation among variables. The number of the respondent is 85 officials in Pusdiklat Kominfo. Reliability of instrument has realiable with value Rcount 0,774 (human relations), 0,710 (communication organizational) dan 0,895 (motivation) more high than Rcritical 0,247. The result of this research are (1) There is positive significant correlation between characteristics of personality (education, functionary) with motivation (self actualization, expectation) and negative significant correlation between level of position and physiological needs (2)There is significant correlation between human relations with officials motivation (3) There is significant correlation between organization communication and officials motivation.
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Judul: Sebaran Lokal Asteroidea (Echinodermata) di Pulau Tikus, Gugusan Pulau Pari, Kepulauan Seribu
Abstrak: Penelitian ekologis tentang bintang laut anggota famili Asteroidea dilakukan pada tahun 2007 di Pulau Tikus Kepulauan Seribu. Tujuan penelitian adalah membandingkan densitas Asteroidea berdasarkan metode transek dan metode pemetaan, serta memperkirakan jumlah dan habitat Archaster typicus. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa di P. Tikus sebelah selatan terdapat 4 jenis Asteroidrea yaitu A. typicus, Linckia laevigata, Culcita novaeguinea dan Nordoa tuberculata. A. typicus merupakan spesies yang dominan. Densitas Asteroidea yang diperoleh dari metode pemetaan lebih tinggi dibandingkan dengan densitas hasil teknik transek. Selain itu, penggunaan metode pemetaan memungkinkan diperolehnya informasi tipe sebaran dari setiap jenis Asteroidea. A.typicus cenderung menempati area berdekatan dengan darat, dengan tutupan lamun 0- 30% dan ukuran partikel substrat 0,5-2 mm. Studi ini menunjukkan bahwa teknik pemetaan memberikan data jumlah individu yang lebih akurat dan pola penyebaran tiap populasi di Pulau Tikus.
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