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Lecturer certification is a process and forms of recognition of a faculty member associated with qualification, competenceand contribution that deserve to be called a professional lecturer. This study aims to empirically examine the effect ofcertification on faculty members in the perspective of performance measurement systems to psychological empowermentand mental model building and subsequent impact on the performance of the lecturer. The research model was built on thebasis of goal setting theory. We collected data using a mail survey on lecturers who have been certified in the province ofSouth Sulawesi, Indonesia. The selection of respondents was based on the consideration that the respondent hasexperienced the whole certification process and have benefited directly and carry out the legal consequences of thecertification. Data analysis was conducted using structural equation modeling. The results showed that the measurementsystem on lecturers certification have both positive and significant relationship to the dimensions of psychologicalempowerment and the mental models. Further more, mental models have positive and significant influence on theperformance of the lecturer. Similarly, the dimensions of psychological empowerment were positively related to managerialperformance, but only the dimension of meaning tha thave a significant effect. The research findings reveal importance ofbehavioral aspects in deciding lecturer certification systems during the certification process and the implementation.Further more, this paper contributes to the literature on lecturer certification, performance measurement systems, andmental models.Keywords: lecturer certification, performance measurement systems, mental model, and psychological empowerment,lecturers’ performance

The objective of this paper is to discourse critical paradigm to respond economic globalization, especially in higher education liberalization.  Higher Education liberalization is employed by World Trade Organization (WTO), firstly  is introduced concept of higher education corporatization. Corporatization is one of implementation strategy of New Public Management (NPM) in public sector.  This paper based on results of case study in one of Perguruan Tinggi Negeri Badan Layanan Umum (PTN BLU). PTN BLU is an example of NMP implementation. NPM is campaigned by International Institution such as World Bank (WB) and Internationally Monetary Fund (IMF). WB, IMF, and WTO use accounting as  a surveillance system. In  Habermas’s Critical Theory perspective,  higher education corporatization is lifeworld moneterization, with accounting as steering media. The effects of that are social pathologies, they are loss of meaning, anomie, and psychopathology. Loss of  meaning in higher education as a knowledge development institution, that dedicate to humanism has transform a corporate, that produce knowledge based economy (KBE) according to market demand.  Losses of academician identities, psychological disease are other examples of social pathologies. Keywords: Habermas, corporatization,  lifeworld, BLU, social pathology

The research want to analysis about corruption and economic growth. The method of analysis use pooling data. Number of cross-section data are 33 provinces and times-series data are three years. The best model obtained from redundant fixed effect test and correlated random effects-Hausman test. The model used an estimation methodin whichthe cross-section is none and the period is fixed. Based on regression output, corruption has negative significant to Indonesia economic growth. So,corruption becomea grease of wheel for indonesia economics. The meaning is corruption increase economic growth. There areten provincesin which theCPI variable significantly to economic growth. Two provinceshave negatif significant and others positif significant to economic growth. If the ten provinces removed from regression,CPI becomes insignificant. So, the ten provinces have big influence to Indonesia economics, especially in CPI.Key words: CPI, economics growth, pooling data, none, fixed, and grease of wheel

Abstract : The writer in this paper tried to investigated and describe the philosophical thoughts of the role of Law Philosophy in to to realize justice. The formulated hypothesis are : (1) The enforcement of the law materialized the justice and the certainty and insurance in justice, (2) The description of the sense of justice should be in the existing positive law, (3) The philosophy of law represented the search for the deepest meaning of the ultimate result in the law wisdom. Kata Kunci : Filsafat Hukum, rasa keadilan, hukum positif, kebijaksanaan.

The meaning of data and informations, most of people sometimes think as same as. But really, it's difference. This passage explain their differences. Also, the passage shows the steps for producing information in three major operations : input, process, and output. Besides this, for many decades, information grew up very fast and very easy. So we know about DSS (Decision Support Systems), EIS (Executive Information Systems, ES (Expert Systems), etc. And then, the writer give an example for information evolution in personnel systems