The vocational education implementation is one of the success factors for government to improve the quality of human resources, mainly toward producing skilled workers. Various researchers have studied the phenomena of vocational education. Unfortunately, studies on research methods in relation to vocational education phenomena are limited. Hence, this paper examined the research methods on the phenomena of vocational education, based on few case studies in Indonesia. Indonesia has many challenges as such Indonesia is a country with the fourth highest population globally, high level of unemployment, relatively rapid growth of new autonomy, and most number of islands in the world. In fact, Indonesia has different characteristics and needs of human resources from each region. This article discusses the methods to explore the phenomena of vocational education through case studies in Indonesia. This method article discusses the division of question groups and deployment of questionnaires through the referral and stages of research. This method article is the alternative basis for preparing research steps related to study the vocational education phenomena.
The high open unemployment rate of vocational graduates in the two semesters of August 2018 and February 2019 is an anomaly, Indonesia government through presidential instruction No. 9 of 2016 concerning vocational revitalization which imposes four national development priorities on vocational education, they are Agriculture, maritime, tourism, and creative industries. Indonesia Ministry of Education also targets vocational graduates in Indonesia absorbed by industry. Non-technology and industrial vocational schools are an inseparable part of the four priorities of Indonesia’s national development mentioned earlier. This research tries to describe the problems that suffer from vocational schools, more specifically the relationship and appropriateness of the majors they choose with their work after graduation. This research with a sample of 1398 non-technology and industrial vocational high school, 629 alumni and 769 students. This research found 938 respondent who choose to study at non-technology and industrial vocational schools for reasons of interest, and only 283 alumni work according to their chosen majors, or only 45 percent. A more sad number was found in the overall sample, where only 55% percent of alumni were employed in accordance with their chosen majors. For this reason, revitalization of non-technology and industrial vocational schools in Indonesia is required.
This study aims to analyse the influence of Situational Leadership, Employee Engagement on Achievement Motivation on 53 Employees of heavy equipment supplier agent companies in Balikpapan, which consists of some employees who are in the department of central rebuild component development (CRC) Balikpapan. The data analysis method used is structural equation modelling (SEM) with a partial least square (PLS) approach. The conclusions in this study have given us information that Situational Leadership does not always have a significant influence on need of achievement motivation with Original Sample (O) 0.128 because of differences in generation and probably some superior didn’t get Supervisory training or they never implementing how to handle team with situational leadership way. Employee Engagement has a positive and significant influence on achievement motivation with Original Sample (O) 0.742 because if there is no commitment and involvement, the company’s goals will not be achieved.
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