- Authors: Siti Nur Hidayah
- From: Faculty of Tarbiyah and Education Science State Islamic University Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta
Abstract:
Government policy which seems to push higher education institutions in Indonesia to be able to compete with other institutions in the global level made numbers of universities reformulate their visions and internal policies to become high ranked university. This paper aimed at discussing the strategies which could be formulated by higher education institution to face the global changes and competition athmosphere in the academic world as well as market demand. Using the concept of learning organization, this paper identified internal and external challenges faced by higher education institutions in Indonesia which need to be dealt with. This paper concluded that to become a learning organization, higher education institution should firstly identify its own antecedent and moderator so that the outcome produced make the institutions able to compete in the national and international level. The Antecedent of learning organization covers seven elements which lead to the internal side of the institutions, they are: values, motivation, individual learning, personal vision, training and development, organizational commitment, dan group commitment. On the other side, the moderator toward learning organization lies in the institution’s policies for its human resource which give space for academic and career development for its members.
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