A GROUNDED THEORY STUDY: THE INFLUENCE OF COMPETENCE TO JOB PERFORMANCE IN BAG INDUSTRY START-UP

• Main Author: Nur Rachmawati, Putri
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/78799
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Based on Center for Human Genetic Research (CHGR), in 2016, Indonesia has about 2000 startup players and in 2020, they predicted the number of Indonesia startup will be growth until 6.5% and will reach 13.000 startups. However, a local venture capital, East Venture, stated the number of start up in Indonesia is decreasing 23% in the second quarter of 2017. It is quite reasonable that Indonesia startup decrease because of many startup is getting failure. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2013), defined that startup will have a few relatively volatile years. And the Bureau of Labor Statistics also defined that 50 percent of startup do not survive in their first 5 years. And the startup which can not survive in their volatile years can get failure. Those failure happen because of various reasons. According to an article from Statistic Brain Research Institute (2017), the biggest rate is 46 % of failure because lack of competence. When Viage was established, the founder is not thinking about the competence which needed by this startup and make the job performance of its personnel is not maximal. Then, the purpose of this study is to determine the influence of the competence to the job performance in bag industry startup. It will be important to reach the main goal of the startup, which is the successfulness. If the owner of the startup want to have a successful business it means that the startup must be able to grow properly. Thereafter, the findings from this research will be used as a company guideline for setting the competence which needed by the bag industry startup and for finding a team which fits with the competence. This research uses qualitative method, the specific method is grounded theory. The researcher collected the data through semi-structured interview to the homogeneous group, which is the owner, founder, or CEO of the bag industry startup which already survive more than 5 years. The interview and the analysis did simultaneously until the data saturated. All of the data were transcribed and coded sentence by sentence. Then, after the data saturated, the researcher categorized it. The researcher followed the model for grounded theory which given by Strauss and Corbin (1998) for finding the relationship for this study. Competence consists of three key components, those are knowledge, skill, and attitude. The result are three components of competence is influenced into the job performance but indirectly. In this research also stated the influence of each component to the job performance. For the next research, it is highly recommended for doing the research with the quantitative method for finding the order of the key components of competence which influence the job performance in bag industry startup.