Itje Pangkey Abstract
2. Leadership Credibility
Credibility of leadership is a set of public perceptions of the qualities a leader.
Credibility is not actually located on the leader but it lies in the public perception. Credibility
is one of the elements of the cause of the effect on the community leaders and leads themselves. Because leadership is a complex phenomenon it is very difficult to give an idea of leadership and characteristics. If a true leader is successful, it is not because of he himself but it is because of followers or community recognition. Stephen Covey defines the
“4 cores of Credibility” as foundational elements that make you believable, both to yourself and to others. The first two cores deal with character, the second two with competence:
Core 1. Integrity: Many equate integrity with honesty. While honesty is a key element, integrity is much more. It’s integratedness, walk your talk and being congruent, inside and out. It’s having the courage to act in accordance with your value and beliefs. Most violations of trust are violation of integrity.
Core 2. Intent: At the core of intent are motives, agendas and the resulting behavior. Trust grows when your motives are straight forward and based on mutual benefit-when you genuinely care not only for yourself, but also for the people you interact with, lead or serve.
Core 3. Capabilities: Your capabilities are the abilities you have that inspire confidence-your talents, attitude, skill, knowledge and style. They are the means you use to produce results.
Core 4. Results: Your results comprise your tract record, your performance and getting the right things done. If you don’t accomplish what you are expected to do it diminishes you credibility. On the other hand, when you achieve the results you promised, you establish a positive reputation of performing, of being a producer.
The things mentioned above are vital for the credibility of a person. They work to build trust. Strength of character and competence of a person can be aligned with the power of leadership. According DeVito, credibility has five dimensions: (1) competence;
(2) character; (3) intention; (4) personality; and (5) Dynamism. These five dimensions are described below: Competence, referring to the ability of intelligence, knowledge leader.
Character, referring to certain properties owned relating to moral leaders such as:
honesty, justice, and truth.
Intense, referring to the motives or factors that encourage someone to do something.
Personality, refers to the appearance of a leader who has the properties of fun, friendship, openness to see the future.
Dynamics, referring to the appearance of a leader who is passionate, aggressive, extrovert and formidable force in personal appearance. Effendi (1993: 43) says that the
trust in the leader is determined by the expertise and whether he can be trusted. The more society enjoys a leader, the more inclined the people to follow him and the more creative and innovative.
Leadership has become one of the key factors in organizational life. Thoha (2004) states that an organization succeeds or fails is largely influenced by factors of leadership.
As the importance of this leadership issue, making the leader has always been the focus of the evaluation of the causes of success or failure of an organization. Widodo said that leadership into force for an organization to maximize its contribution to the welfare of its members and the wider community.
John C Maxwell : In the 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, John Maxwell sums up his definition of leadership as “leadership is influence - nothing more, nothing less.”
This moves beyond the position defining the leader, to looking at the ability of the leader to influence others - both those who would consider themselves followers, and those outside that circle. Indirectly, it also builds in leadership character, since without maintaining integrity and trustworthiness, the capability to influence will disappear.
From the definition of credibility and leadership that has been described above it can be concluded that the credibility of leadership is a set of public perceptions of the properties of the leader. Credibility is not actually located on the leader but is located on the public perception that the leader has the competence, character and charisma.
Competence relates to the vision of a leader called a visionary leader. Visionary often we translate as people who have big dreams. Being able to see far ahead, but do not just being able to look ahead, but both should be in front. This means that the attitudes and actions are also always in front. People who have big dreams but not doing anything is not a visionary. People who have big dreams but stopped in the middle of the road because of the difficulty is not a visionary.
Program Management
Management is one of the functions of management. Management is defined as the process of structuring the organization in accordance with the objectives, resources and the environment. Thus the results of management is the structure of resource roles in an organization. Schermerhorn, Hunt and Osborn define management as “the compilation of human resources and non-human resources, including natural resources combined into a productive”.
George R. Terry in Kambey defines management as follows: “organizing the establishment of effective behavioral relationships among persons so that they may
work together efficiently and gain personal satisfaction in doing the task selected under given environmental conditions for the purpose of Achieving some goal or objective”. Management is the act of establishment of relations between behaviors of the people so that they can work together as a powerful and gain personal satisfaction in terms of carrying out certain tasks under certain environmental conditions in order to achieve certain goals or objectives. Kadarisman defines management as “the process of defining the structure of roles through the determination of activities, the grouping of activities, assignment of groups, activities to managers, delegation of authority to carry it out, coordinating relations of authority and information both horizontally and vertical in the organizational structure to achieve organizational goals”. While Tabarani defines management as “the overall activities of educational management in the grouping of people and the determination of the duties, functions and responsibilities of the authority of each with the aim of creating activities useful in achieving the goals that have been determined in advance.
In the implementation of student programs, program management is an attempt to integrate human and non-human into a single unified implementation of the activities in achieving the stated goals. This is a management process in order to form an organization to realize a variety of plans to achieve the goal. Therefore, Terry argued that management is a management basis. Management is done in order to gather the resources needed in the plan so as to enable the achievement of the set objectives and activities can be run effectively and efficiently.
Student program management is a management function in order to organize all the components needed for the implementation of program activities are effective and efficient student. By program management, then all available resources can act according to its function and will interact and work together to achieve the goals set.
Newstrom and Davis say that “the effectiveness of the organization is not obtained by maximizing the human variable alone but by all system variables in the system are working together”. This argument suggests that management will be effective what-if all sub-systems act according to its function. In relation to the program management, it suggests that a program is deemed organized if it is supported by all the necessary components and the components are operating as intended purpose.
According to Sri Sujati Kadarisman that “one important part of the task is to harmonize management of a group of people, establish a work program and utilization of facilities and bring the diverse interests and abilities to produce a specified direction”. The process of managing the stages of how a job is formulated and implemented by the members so that the objectives of the program management can be achieved in accordance with the planned.
4. Effect of Leadership Credibility on the Effectiveness of Student Activities