Lecturers’ Performance and Technology at Private Higher Education in South Sulawesi Indonesia

Abstract

Higher education institution is a part of society transformation element. Therefore, it is a need to see how the university ability especially lecturers as instrumental part of institution. This paper would like to discover the technology on satisfaction, motivation and lecturers’ performances at private higher education. This research was conducted in private higher education institution in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The used data are primary data which was collected from 233 respondents. This exploration was performed in 46 private colleges in 139 accredited departments through National Accreditation Board of Education Ministry, The Republic of Indonesia. The analysis steps consist of first, confirmed factor analysis to investigate appropriate measurement and second step was the use Structure Equation Modeling (SEM) to verify the model. The research findings indicate that technology has a positive and significant effect on working satisfaction and motivation but insignificant to lecturers’ performances. In addition, ability, compensation, working environment, and leadership simultaneously have a positive and significant effect on lecturer‘s performances. It shows that SEM analysis produces direct effect line coefficient of lecturer’ capability to performance of 0,101 with the value of critical ratio (CR) = 3,022 > 1,65 and the value of probability (P) = 0,002 < 0,05. It means that the higher the capability level based on lecturer's research would result the lecturer's performance would also tend to be high. Finally, this research shows that the lecturer's capability in this case, the knowledge and skill possessed in performing the college tridarma (objectives) contributes to the improvement of lecturer's performance.