Judul: Faktor-faktor yang memengaruhi kinerja aparatur pemerintah daerah Kabupaten Kepulauan talaud dalam mewujudkan tata pemerintahan yang baik (Good Governance)
Abstrak: The local government employees’ performance illustrates certain attainments in the local government goals, both in terms of quality as well as quantity of works accomplished in performing their duties. The objectives of this study were: (1) to identify factors affecting those officials’ performances, (2) to investigate such factors’ effects on those officials’ performances in realizing the good governance, (3) to disclose the extent of relationships amongst such factors in implementing the good governance, and (4) to formulate a strategy for enhancing those officials’ performances in governing the district of Talaud Islands. This research was conducted in Talaud Islands as an ex post facto study. A stratified random sample was selected from a population of government employee sized 234. Data were collected through interviews using structured questionnaires and observations from December 2011 through January 2012. The data obtained were analyzed using the Structural Equation Model (SEM) procedure with LISREL program. The findings pointed out that: (1) the government employees’ characteristics, competencies, motivations and work climate affected their performances, (2) improvements of their certain characteristics, competencies, motivations and work climate enhanced their performances, (3) their characteristics, competencies, motivations and work climate were mutually correlated, and (4) their performances affected their perceptions on implementing good governance in the district of Talaud Islands
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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: Infeksi Cacing Jantung Dirofilaria Immitis, Railliet & Henry, 1911 Pada Anjing
Abstrak: Cacing Dirofilaria immitis dewasa yang tinggal dalm ventrikel kanan jantung anjing, sering kali menimbulkan gejala klinis yang cukup berat. Cacing Tersebut menghasilkan mikrofilaria yang selanjutnya berkembang menjadi larva infektif dalam saluran malphigi induk semang entara, yaitu nyamuk dari genus Culex, Aedes dan Anopheles.
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