MANAGERIAL INSPIRATION IN THE TRADITIONAL PESANTREN

Abstract

This research deepens the concept of Henry Mintzberg who gives hard criticism that most managers can not be classified definitively into management functions. Thus allowing manager to play his/her managerial’s roles which consist of interpersonal, informational, and decisional. So, this study will synthesize interpersonal’s role of the managers. Meanwhile, an independent position of this research is the manager's inspiration to play his/her roles in decision making. The main objective of this research is leader’s inspiration through the process of meditation, mediation, and reflection of the main Kyais in Pesantren Bendakerep Cirebon Indonesia. This objective can be answered deeply only with qualitative’s kind of research through cultural approach. The data which is collected through interview, observation and documents analysis, after going through triangulation stage, will be analyzed through categorization, reduction, and interpretation. The findings show that the Kyai’s efforts of decision making is by obeying the ancestor inheritances both materialistic and imaterialistic, to dig the inspiration through meditation, mediation and reflection in the form of decisions. Keywords: Managerial roles, leadership inspiration, traditional pesantren