THE EFFECT OF ORGANIZATION LEARNING, EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT AND IMAGE OF PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES TOWARDS

THE EFFECT OF ORGANIZATION LEARNING, EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT AND
IMAGE OF PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES TOWARDS THE PERFORMANCE
OF THE UNIVERSITIES COMPETENCY AS AN
INTERVENING VARIABLE
IN TIMOR LESTE

Adolmando Soares Amaral (Corresponding Author)

Email : f5.lacon@gmail.com
 

ABSTRACT

This research has a purpose to examine and analyze the causal link between the variables of organization learning, external environment and Private Universities’ image with the performance of Private Universities in Timor Leste, while the Private Universities’ competency as an intervening variable, at the same time verifying the validity and reliability of research instruments as a whole. It also observes whether there is any impact of Private Universities’
competency as an intervening variable towards the achievement and performance of Private Universities (PU) in Timor Leste. The population in this study is all PU within Direccao Nasional do Ensino Suprior Ministerio da Educasao Timor-Leste, amounting to 9 universities. The samples in this research is 100 respondents representing heads of each university. Data collection is by means of anquette and data measurement uses 5 Likert scale. The result shows that all three variables prove to give a positive and significant effect towards the increase of PU’s competency. The analysis uses Partial Least Square (PLS) and the result answers the first, second, and third hypothesis which are basically intended to examine factors influencing PU’s competency. After examining that the three variables have effect on PU’s competency, a further research is done to investigate how PU’s competency can influence its performance. The result concludes that increased competency of Private Universities’ will also increase their performances.

Keywords : Organization learning, external environment, Private Universities’ image
towards performance in Timor Leste, Private Universities’ competency as an
intervening variable.

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