Abstract
Nowadays, many companies in Indonesia are running in the plantation field. Buana Tunas Sejahtera Company (Inc.) is a palm oil company in West Borneo Province that working under the Kencana Group. This company was organized by leaders, directors, managers, manager assistants, foremen, clerks, permanent workers, and freelance workers. The worker’s work performance in this company was slightly low due to their worker’s low motivation and discipline. This study aimed to know the method to improve the workers’ work performance in Buana Tunas Sejahtera Company (Inc.), Kapuas Hulu Regency. This was a descriptive quantitative study employing an Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) done by software namely Expert Choice 11. There were 100 workers chosen by the purposive sampling technique participated in this study. The result showed that the key point in dealing with the worker's work performance issue was meeting their social need, while improving their salary was a key point in dealing with the motivation issue. Building the worker's responsibility was playing an important role in improving the discipline culture. The company needs to improve the worker’s motivation by conducting training sessions, increasing worker’s salaries during the overtime hours, and giving more motivation to their workers. To improve the discipline culture, the company needs to use clear and firm rules to enforce the proper and accountable behavior among the worker.
Highlights
Improving the national economy sector through an agribusiness is an effort implemented by the Indonesian government in improving the national economic stability
This study conducted in Buana Tunas Sejahtera Company (Inc.), Seriang Village, Badua District, Kapuas Hulu Regency
Buana Tunas Sejahtera Company (Inv.) was having the largest palm oil plantation in Kapuas Hulu Regency. This was a quantitative descriptive study employing 100 permanent workers chosen from 1.168 workers who working as the harvesting worker, preserving worker, fertilizing worker, and castration worker in Buana Tunas Sejahtera Company (Inc.)
Summary
Improving the national economy sector through an agribusiness is an effort implemented by the Indonesian government in improving the national economic stability. The plantation company is categorized as agribusiness activity that able to produce high profit. There were various type of plantation company in Indonesia. A palm oil plantation company was the dominant type of company founded in Indonesia. In 2018, there were 1,756 palm oil plantation companies spread in Indonesia (National Institute of Statistical Data, 2018). A developing palm oil plantation company was characterized by its integrated palm oil company that able to reconstruct the infrastructure and utilizing human resources around the company. The number of this type of company is growing, which indicated that their worker’s social and economic wellness is improving. The increasing number of this type of company could increase the level of product competitiveness among each company. A high work performance is required to maintain the product quality produced by the company
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