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Public sector organizations, namely governments, are described as “non-productive and inefficient organization”. This negative image of public sector organizations has arisen as a consequence of low public sector organization performance. Public sector performance improvement can be done by manipulating motivational dimensions of public service employee. This research aims to empirically test effect of public service motivation and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) on organizational performance in the public sector of Indonesia. In addition, this study also focuses on individual factor of motivation, such as job satisfaction and organizational commitment. This paper employed 108 respondents that were sampled using convenient sampling. The result showed that there were positive significant influences of public service motivation and job satisfaction on organizational performance. Unfortunately, this study failed to give a proof that OCB influences organizational performance. Moreover, this study showed that there is differences level of motivational between men and women. On average, women have job satisfaction and public service motivation higher than men. This implies that women more satisfy at work than men, and women more likely to value intrinsic reward than men

Changes in the organizational environment sometimes is needed and even inevitable. Local government as one of the public sector organizations also deal with the changes. One of the changes faced by the public sector is a change from the cash basis accounting system into accrual basis. This study examines the effect of organizational commitment on resistance to change of local civil servants. The total sample of this study used a total of 77 respondents from one local government in East Java. This study found that higher normative commitment of local government employees, level of resistance to change will be lower. This study didn’t found any effect of afective commitment and continuance commitment to the resistance to change

According to the classical theory of the firm, a firm can create value and earn maximum profits through financial capital. This view is valid in a stable environment. In recent decades, environmental conditions getting really erratic. Therefore, the role of financial capital in creating value and profitability is questionable. According to the modern theory of enterprise, intellectual capital is more dominant than the financial capital. This study aimed to examine the relationship/influence of financial capital and intellectual capital, directly or indirectly, to the company's financial performance among banking companies in Indonesia. Data obtained from banks, which in a single entity. Data that qualify the requirements is processed by using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The analysis showed that the financial capital (assets) indirectly influential, positive, and has significant impact on the firm's financial performance through intellectual capital and non-financial performance. Indirect effect on the financial performance of assets through intellectual capital is estimated at 0.166 and through non-financial performance to financial performance estimated at 0,600 (ROA) and at 0.617 (NI). Thus it is true that intellectual capital is a strategic asset that mediates the creation of superior performance of banking companies in Indonesia.

The research was intended to investigate the relationship between tax tariff and the compliance of tax payer; and how this relationship was affected by type of income (endowed income vs earned income). The degree of the tax payer compliance was measured based on reported income. The treatment of the experiment was conducted in accordance with variables of reported income (endowed v.s. earned income) and variables of tax tariff (15% vs 30%). The testing results on the impact of endowed income towards the degree of tax payer compliance indicated that there was no distinct difference on the degree of tax payer compliance towards the application of lower tax tariff of 15% as well as higher tax tariff of 30%. This premise possibly resulted from the nature of the participants as a risk averse receiving endowed income, providing that how hard they worked, they received constant amount of incomes. The testing toward participants receiving earned income revealed that they responded positively toward the increase of tax tariff by encouraging the degree of compliance to report their tax. This issue is in line with economics theory stating that tax-evasion-gamble brings higher risks whenever the tax tariff rises. Thus, the risk faced by the tax payer will increase in the line with the incline of audit and penalty probability.