Improving Employee Performance Through Spiritual Intelligence and Organizational Citizenship Behavior

This study aims to analyze the influence of spiritual intelligence and OCB on employee performance at the Denpasar City Social Service. The research population used were all 106 employees who were also used as research respondents. Data was collected using research questionnaires and distributed directly to the Denpasar City Social Service employees. The collected data is then processed with the SmartPLS 3.0 application program. The results showed that spiritual intelligence and OCB had a significant positive effect on employee performance. Spiritual intelligence also shows a significant positive effect on OCB. Furthermore, OCB acts as a partial mediation on the relationship of spiritual intelligence to the performance of Denpasar City Social Service employees. The dominant indicators that contribute to the spiritual intelligence of employees are self-knowledge, focus and contribution, and honesty. More specifically, it can be explained that self-knowledge, a better level of focus and higher honesty will be able to increase employee OCB. While the indicators of the dominant OCB variable in this case are civic virtue (responsibility) and sportsmanship (tolerance). This means that the higher the civic virtue (responsibility) and sportsmanship (tolerance) the employee will be able to improve the employee's performance.

Lampung Krakatau Festival: Tourism Development and Active Citizens Participation to Strengthen Community Civic Virtue

The tourism sector must be able to involve the community through space in order to gather, interact and communicate. Krakatau Festival as a medium that involves the participation of individuals and the community can support the development of tourism in Lampung Province. The community engagement in the festival is responsible as citizens of the community including the government, stakeholders, people, communities to take part actively and create strong social interrelation and cohesion. Tourism development through the community as part of sapta pesona is the main focus supported by a variety of cultural activities, destinations, and ultimately creates social cohesion as part of the civilization of citizenship. Qualitative research with ethnographic methods is implemented to get data and information comprehensively from various sources. The results of the study found that the context of the Krakatau Festival activities in real terms has the potential to increase tourism with historical values of Krakatau and can unite the community in a positive social interaction relationship and strengthen the active participation of local community virtue.

Two Conceptions of Virtue

This essay was written for a Stanford conference on philosophy of education on whether virtue can be taught. The general questions considered are: What is virtue? How can social conditions promote it? How can individuals effectively strive for it? The specific focus is on the conceptions of virtue in the works of Immanuel Kant and John Rawls. Kant regarded virtue as a good will that is also strong enough to resist contrary passions, impulses, and inclinations. Childhood training can prepare children for virtue but becoming virtuous requires an empirically inexplicable commitment and effort that is up to each individual. Rawls explains a sense of justice as a civic virtue that he conjectures will develop naturally, according to certain psychological laws, if the basic structure of society is just. Rawls’ reliance on empirical studies addresses questions left mysterious by Kant, but his theory faces problems of its own.

Perbedaan Organizational Citizenship Behavior Guru Sekolah ditinjau dari Jenis Kelamin

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui perbedaan Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) pada guru Sekolah Dasar yang ditinjau dari jenis kelamin. Penelitian ini dilakukan pada guru Sekolah Dasar Kecamatan Gedongtengen dengan populasi guru sejumlah 63 subjek. Pengumpulan data menggunakan skala Organizational Citizenship Behavior yang terdiri dari 5 aspek yaitu conscientiousness, sportsmanship, civic virtue, courtesy, dan altruism. Pengujian validitas dan reliabilitas skala OCB menggunakan uji ahli dan uji reliabilitas Alpha Cronbach sebesar 0,853. Sementara itu, untuk uji perbedaan digunakan independent samples t-Test. Hasil analisis data menunjukkan adanya perbedaan OCB pada guru laki-laki dan perempuan. Pada uji hipotesis yang dilakukan, diperoleh hasil (t = 2,612; df 57; p<0.005) hal itu menunjukkan bahwa terdapat perbedaan antara kelompok guru laki-laki dan perempuan. Berdasarkan hasil perhitungan, didapatkan hasil OCB guru laki-laki lebih tinggi dibandingkan guru perempuan

Ways of seeing digital disconnection: A negative sociology of digital culture

In this contribution, I do not engage in digital disconnection merely as an empirical phenomenon but as a way of seeing digital culture and as a heuristic. I do not ask whether or not digital disconnection is possible, is good or bad, or should be advocated or overcome. Instead, I adopt Eva Illouz’s framework of a negative sociology of social bonds to explore what it would mean to study digital culture from the perspective of negative choice. The conceptual framework is illustrated with three empirical cases that show what it would mean to engage in a negative sociology of digital culture. The shift in perspective from positive bonds to the choice to disengage, not use, or exit certain fora makes visible how digital culture is not only increasingly characterized by polarization, but also how disconnection emerges as a civic virtue that puts the individual user’s responsibility at the forefront.

Virtue, Ambition, and the Balanced Constitution

The turmoil in Europe in the early sixteenth century revealed some of the weaknesses of princely power and imperial authority; it was clear that the much-needed reform and rebalancing could not be enacted solely from above. This chapter focuses on works which called for the promotion of civic virtue and the strengthening of institutions, especially in a time of rapid social, economic, and political upheaval. In Venice, Gasparo Contarini set out an idealized model of mixed government while in the Holy Roman Empire magistrates and officials were encouraged to uphold the common good—often a common good shaped by Protestant thinking. However, the case of Miguel Servetus in Geneva sparked further discussion of the role of the magistrate in upholding religious truth and generated new arguments for toleration. Meanwhile, many writers looked to ancient Greece and Rome for inspiration and advice, and new research by men like Carlo Sigonio revealed that Rome’s political system had itself been affected by social and economic change. In England Sir Thomas Smith drew on some of this research to advocate a broadly based citizenry in which wealth, lineage, and merit were all seen as important qualifications for office-holding.