Improving the Capacity of Private Universities Management

摘要

This research explain the influence of leadership style and organizational culture to the motivation and the implications of the lecturer performance in private universities, by taking research location in Bandar Lampung, Indonesia. The Private university is an academic institution managed by individual/foundation certain characteristics, generally have not adequate academic capacity than the public university, so that it adversely affects the academic performance, especially the performance of lecturers. By taking a sample of 244 samples from 30 Private Universities in Bandar Lampung, where the samples are taken to obtain data relating to the variables of leadership style, organizational culture, motivation and performance of lecturers will be observed. Meanwhile, a descriptive quantitative is the methodolgy that is used in this research, and Structural Equation Model is an analytical tool to find the influence and the causal relationship between those variables. The results showed that the leadership style, organizational culture, and motivation should be carried out simultaneously, in order to improve the performance of lecturers. Therefore, academic management must be able to motivate the lecturers to increase the professionalism, and academic career development. In addition, to increase the motivation of lecturers, leaders must be able to develop the existing system through training programs, and policy to encourage the lecturers improving education.