Universities within the era of the 4.0 industrial revolution, now must immediately improve in preparing themselves, especially related to human resources. Lecturers as a determining factor in the progress of education, are always required to upgrade their skills and abilities. In Indonesia, the majority of lecturers are dominated by baby boomers and generation X or digital immigrants who, in some cases, experience obstacles. In the present reality that students are now a millennial or digital native generation who tend to have their learning styles and patterns. This article highlights the competencies that must be mastered by lecturers in the current industrial revolution 4.0 era, namely: (i) educational competence, (ii) competence in research, (iii) competence of technological commercialization, (iv) competence in future strategies, (v) competence counsellor, (vi) competence in globalization, and vii) joint competence.
Capability building for a group of society is necessary to build the rural community in order to grow the economic potent. One of the communal organization is Karang Taruna (Youth organization), which is expected to empower its youth members so that each member improves competencies for community and self. Capacity building can be accomplished through training programs, and one program often used for capacity building is outbound training. A specific outbound training can be designed for youth so they can comprehend their role in society through outbound implementation. This research is going to measure the correlation between the community engagement and capability building of the Karang Taruna members through implementing outbound activities. The data are collected through questionnaires distributed to all Karang Taruna members who join the outbound activities, and the questionnaires are constructed with the Likert scale from strongly disagree to agree strongly. The number of outbound participants is 16, and each participant is given treatment by outbound instructors about capability building so that each can implement the ability during the outbound. The data analysis is using cross tabulation, and the results show that the outbound training material can improve the skills of the participant during the outbound sessions, can increase the community engagement and motivate the Karang Taruna members, and can enable self-development through continuous learning processes about the outbound. The instructors’ ability to explain the training material can accelerate new experiences for outbound participants, can bring new insights to face problems, and can continuously improve the selfdevelopment of each participant.
The intention of this research is to develop a measure by which non-financial service performance of Islamic banks can be analyzed. Research methodology comprises of qualitative and quantitative phase. Simple random sampling has been applied to select Islamic banks branches from Multan. In qualitative phase through purposive sampling 10 in depth interviewees were conducted from managerial employees with the help of interviewee guide and scale items were generated to explore non-financial service performance elements. A questionnaire was developed and self-administered questionnaire based survey was performed in quantitative phase. Out of 150 distributed questionnaire 111 complete responses were received and analyzed by applying exploratory and conformity factor analysis with the help of software Smart-PLS. Findings of the study suggests that key performance indicators of Islamic banks are non-financial in nature .Scale contained 40 items. Total 6 factors with Eigenvalues > 1 containing 40 items with factor loading >.7 were extracted and total variance explained was 80%. Variance explained by each factor is as follows 1.Marketin and Sharia board performance, (15items 29.9%)2 Training(7items12.78%), 3.Corporate social responsibility(5items 11.43%) 4.Operational performance(5 items 9.6% VA), 5.Management commitment(4 items and 9.0% VA)and 6.Employee commitment (4 items and 7.16% VA). This research in the form of the scale provides a detail, reliable measure by which non-financial performance of Islamic banking can be comparatively analyzed at bank and branch level. Future corners of improvements can be identified which will result in increasing customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and service quality improvements.
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