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ChangeManagement- A 'Tricky' Task
in University Context:
An Experienceof a Mid-size Private
Universitv in Indonesia
Abstract Due to the rapid changeof social, political and economic aspects
in the national, regional and global context, universities must ernphasize
more the quality and the ability to adaptto the change.This paper discusses
how UKI was imposed to the changethrough the process of developing
and irnplunenting of strategicplanning and the changesthat were instigated
directly or indirecfly. The dialoguesamong the faculty membersapparently
give a mutual benefit for all stakeholdersto have a shared-vision and
shared-mission.
Abraham Simatupang and Ied VedaR. Sitepu are lecifirers at Universitas Kristen Indonesia
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ON TIIE MOVE
UniversitasKristenIndonesiaesoneof the oldestprivateuniv€,sifiesin
Indonesiahassomeexperienc€ ,inrnmaginga universif and providesits ser-
vice to the community.However,s[1c6,its perfonnance wasquestionedby its
stakeholders, a frct-finding"taskfore'was €stablishcd.TL€ primary task of
this forceu/asto conducta survryon thg univ"ersity's perforrnance'(Sitepu
et
al, 2001).Thefindingsof fie srmleyw€r€ comnrltriczfiedJothe stakeHderrs,
amongofrers, the rnembersof fte Botrd of Trustees;the Reets.and.Vice
Rectors,the Deansof the faculties,arxCthe acade'mic ?rnda&ninistsive:qtuff
4s well. The objeetive of fhe to
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to present it before the Board of Trusteesand the Rector. At the end the uni-
versity's strategic planning team compiled the faculties' and urits' sfrategic
planning to be the university's strategic planning. In the fourttr bloch which
is the implementation bloch it is notified that some adjustrnents should be
madein accordanceto the budgetand it is sometimesnot favorable.Monitoring
and evaluation are two important points in management.The fifth block shows
how thesepoints shouldbe done.
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scouting is made possible through a full support from the local govemments
that provide scholarship. In tum, the scholarship holders will retum to their
respectiveplaces to help their governmentsdevelop their region. kr the spirit
of autonomy,the role of UKI is still significant.
universities in the Jakarta greaterare4 which at the moment has around 300
private universities and two stateuriversities as {-rKJ's competitors!
This is shown by the vision and rnission statement that lrKI agreed
upon: vision statement:UKI will becomean excellent university in education,
researchand community servicesbasedon Christian values in anticipating the
globalization era. Missjon statement To produce graduateswith competency
who have integtty and are competitive in the global era.
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Note:
I GPA: Grade PerformanceAverage scoreis befween0-4, where 4 is the highest.
2. Indonesianacadanicdegree:Sl,52,53areequivalenttoBachelor,MasterandDoctoralde-
gree, respectively.
3. Academic rank AsistenAhli equiv. Junior Lechuer, Lehor e,quiv. Senior Lecturer, lebor
Kepala equiv. Assoc. Prof , urd Guru Besar equiv. Professor.
Accreditation status+
Faculfy Study programs (or Department) 200r
(baseline)
2004
Medicine Medicine B B
Engineering Mechanicalengineering C B
Electricalengineering C B
Civil engineering C B
Architecture C B
Law Law' A A
Letters English B B
English(DiplomaProgram) N/a+* L
Economics Management N/a**
Accounting C B
Accounting@iplomaProgram) C B
TaxManagement (DiplomaPro-
L
gramj
Management @iplomaProgram) N/a** L
Accreditation status+
Faculty Studyprograms(or Departmenr) ,OgJ
.. . 2004
(Dasellne)
Biolory N/a** ***
Physics N/a** ***
Socialandpolitical Communication N/a** B
sclences Intemafional
relations N/a+* B
Percentageof accredited
' Accreditationstatusof study
study programs
programs
2001(baseline) 2004
N/a 33%(7) 0% (0)
c 43%(e) 14% (3)
B l9o/o(4) 48o/o
(10)
A 5o/o(l) 2e%(6)
Many scholars say that the 2lo century is "the century of Asia,', in
which Japan, Kore4 china and Taiwan will be the leading countri'esof the
region. It meansthat economic market in this region will grow significantly.
In order to deal with thesegrowing economic activities, the Faculty of Educa-
tion and reachers' Training has establisheda new deparfinentof Mandarin in
cooperationwith Fujian university, china. Furthermore,the Faculty of Medi-
cine together with Universitas sarn Ratulangi, a state university in Manado,
North Sulawesi,jointly opens a specializationprogruiln,ophthaknology. This
program is supported by Christian Blind Mission of Germany. Moreover,
Teaching Hospital of UKI is developing researchcooperation with the Indo-
nesia-German Medical Association (Deutsch Indonesische Geseilschaft ffn
Medizin\.
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to guarantee that the change process will give positive results rapidly. To
ma"ximizethe results, people are encouragedto do small (piecemeal)changes
frst. Resistance,doubts,skepticism,disputes:re some factorspeople will usu-
ally encountertbrough the process.A strongand consistentleadershipis indeed
a decisivefactor to overcomethe situation(Clarh 1996).We observednot all
deparfinentsor units have successstoriesdue to this.
A question of synergizing also appearsto be another important factor to
consider.
Organizational research,on the hand, should also be conducted to get
clear insight for the stakeholders(Mintzberg et al, 1997 and Morrison et al,
1984). Last but not leas! introducing cha4gein university needscourage and
it is an 'art' in itself.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Authors wish to ftank Ika Bali, Mompang Panggabeanand Ganda Huta-
pe4 colleaguesfrom the Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Law and Faculty
of Economics, respectively, who gave their great contributions in preparing
the seminar and workshops on strategicplanning. Mompang Panggabeanand
Ganda Hutapea also had jointly desigred a self-evaluation questionnairefor
monitoring purposesof the sffategic planning which is usedto add some im-
portant facts to this paper.
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