THE ROLE OF VISIONARY LEADERSHIP IN QUALITY CULTURE DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEM AS A MEDIATION (AN EMPIRICAL STUDY IN INDONESIAN PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION)

Anik Herminingsih

doi:10.31933/dijemss.v2i3.754

Abstract

The government has responsibilities towards higher education qualities in Indonesia through The Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education or Kemenristekdikti. The increasing global competition makes higher education in Indonesia follow a higher education trend called the implementation of a quality assurance system or SPMI. Directorate General of Learning and Student Affairs, in order to realize Kemenristekdikti’s vision, has established a development program of SPMI 2015-2019 that aims to make a quality culture in Indonesia's higher education. 100 respondents involved as a proportionally determined research sample. Data analyzed by the explanatory approach using structural equation modeling or SEM and processed with the AMOS program. This research is expected to give a contribution to improving the growth of quality culture in higher education

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The government has responded to organizing higher education governance by issuing binding regulations and laws that have consequences related to the legality of higher education
The increasing global competition makes higher education in Indonesia follow a higher education trend called the implementation of a quality assurance system or SPMI
It means that visionary leadership affect significantly towards quality culture directly or through SPMI

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The government has responded to organizing higher education governance by issuing binding regulations and laws that have consequences related to the legality of higher education. Implementation of Internal Quality Assurance System (SPMI) in all higher education in Indonesia need to be encouraged and scouted by involving higher education. Implementation of SPMI that run consistently and continuously will be able to create a quality culture. This was proven by the study about quality assurance by Hsu (2017) stating that the implementation of quality assurance in Taiwan has brought a change in higher education management and improves lecturer’s professionalism. (2017) found that implementation of a quality assurance system has brought improvements in organizational communication, information system, quality culture, transparency, the more obvious roles and responsibilities Vettoriet al. (2017) found that implementation of a quality assurance system has brought improvements in organizational communication, information system, quality culture, transparency, the more obvious roles and responsibilities

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