Mediating Effect of Psychology Empowerment on the Influence of Knowledge Sharing to Lecturer Performance: An Empirical Study in UBP Karawang

Abstract

Lecturers’ academic positions, university accreditation ratings, and lecturers’ education levels that are not yet optimal indicate that lecturers’ performance is still not optimal. The government’s efforts by providing scholarships, training, and grants are a form of empowering lecturers. In addition, there are research inconsistencies, which assume that knowledge sharing can improve lecturer performance is a concern, so the authors develop psychological empowerment variables as a form of renewal. The study aims to analyze the effect of psychological empowerment on relationship knowledge sharing on lecturer performance. This research method used descriptive verification with scale range analysis and path analysis. The population of this research was all lecturers at the University of Buana Perjuangan Karawang, with a sample of 119 respondents. The results of this study reveal that the Knowledge sharing variable is in the high category, the two psychological empowerment variables are in a good category, and the performance of lecturers is in a good category. While the verification analysis shows that there is a positive and significant influence of the knowledge sharing variable on psychological empowerment. The effect of the psychological empowerment variable on the performance of lecturers shows a positive and significant impact. The influence of the knowledge sharing variable on the performance of lecturers through psychological empowerment shows a positive and significant impact.

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