Psychological Empowerment and Commitments of Changes on the Civitas Academica of Universitas Negeri Padang

Abstract

In this globalization era, the workplace should change and develop continuously. BLU (Badan Layanan Umum) as a new regulation makes a change in the organization entirely, including work standard, financial procedures, organizational structural, and many more. If the changes are not made, then this will have an impact on individuals (lecture) and organizations. For lecture, they do not get remuneration and cannot develop their carier in organization. For organizations, this will make the organization (institution) lag behind other institutions. For those reasons, to make an organizational change becomes effective, employee's commitment is highly needed for it. A commitment to change as a bound between employees to the organizations which help to make a change become successful. The sampling technique is non random sampling and the questionnaire was distributed to 250 lecturers at State Universty in Padang. Correlation test is used to see the relationship between pychological empowerment and commitment to change. The results of this study show there is a relationship between psychological empowerment and commitment to organizational change. Lecturer as the academic community in university aside has obligation to the needs of "Tridharma Perguruan Tinggi", they also feel the importance of career development as part of selfdevelopment.