Title : ANALYSIS OF MOTIVATION, ABILITY, OPPORTUNITY, AND THREAT AND ITS INFLUENCE TO THE LECTURER EFFORTS TO IMPROVE ACADEMIC POSITION
Authors : Marsudi Lestariningsih
University as an institution of higher education requires lecturers with adequate status in the teaching-learning process. University lecturers who have high academic positions will have many benefits. However, the attempts to realize high academic positions seem not optimal and there are still many problems occurred, so that the number of lecturers with the certain rank required by the university has not been sufficient enough. Many lecturers are supposed to have reached a certain position. This situation encourages to be investigated which really factors cause Lecturer efforts in improving their academic position. This study is aimed to determine whether the variables influence faculty's effort in improving their academic position, and which is the influencing dominant variable. This study uses a mainstream approach by exploring the Multiple Regression analysis to test the formulated hypothesis. Research was conducted at University X, Surabaya, while the research objects are lecturer at the University X. The results indicate that simultaneously Motivation, Capabilities, Opportunities, and Threats have a significant influence on Faculty efforts to improve academic positions, while partially Motivation, Opportunities, and Threat have a significant influence, and Ability is not. Motivation is also shown as dominant variable effects on Lecturer efforts to improve academic positions.
