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Publication Date: March, 25, 2021

DOI: 10.14738/abr.93.9927.

Setiono, B. A., Andjarwati, T., Susilo, K. E., Budiarti, E., & Soemadijo, P. S. (2021). The Influence of Competence with the Elements of

Knowledge, Understanding, Ability/Skills, Values, Attitudes and Interests on Employee Performance at the Tanjung Perak Port Authority

Office in Surabaya. Archives of Business Research, 9(3). 2256-234.

The Influence of Competence with the Elements of Knowledge,

Understanding, Ability/Skills, Values, Attitudes and Interests

on Employee Performance at the Tanjung Perak Port Authority

Office in Surabaya

Beni Agus Setiono

Hang Tuah University

Tri Andjarwati

Faculty of Economics and Business

University of 17 August 1945 Surabaya

Kunto Eko Susilo

Faculty of Computer Science

Narotama University Surabaya

Endah Budiarti

Faculty of Economics and Business

University of 17 August 1945 Surabaya

Pramita Studiviany Soemadijo

Faculty of Economics and Business

University of 17 August 1945 Surabaya

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to test and analyze the influence

of competence with elements of knowledge, understanding,

abilities/skills, values, attitudes and interests on employee

performance at the Tanjung Perak Port Authority Office,

Surabaya. This type of research is an associative study that

explains the relationship and influence between competency

variables on employee performance. The population in this

study amounted to 90 people. The sampling technique used the

saturated sampling method. Methods of data collection by

interview, literature study, observation and questionnaires. The

data were analyzed by using the Simple Linear Regression

method. This study concluded that competence with indicators

of knowledge, understanding, abilities/skills, values, attitudes

and interests has a significant effect on improving employee

performance at the Tanjung Perak Main Port Authority Office.

Keywords: Competence, employee performance, knowledge skill

attitude

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Setiono, B. A., Andjarwati, T., Susilo, K. E., Budiarti, E., & Soemadijo, P. S. (2021). The Influence of Competence with the Elements of

Knowledge, Understanding, Ability/Skills, Values, Attitudes and Interests on Employee Performance at the Tanjung Perak Port Authority Office

in Surabaya. Archives of Business Research, 9(3). 224-234.

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INTRODUCTION

Byrd (2011:5) states that human resources are the most important assets in a company or

organization. Employees will have potential if managed properly and correctly, but will be

a burden if they are wrongly managed. Human resource management can be done by

managing the various expertise possessed by human resources owned by the organization.

This management is in a context related to management practices in achieving various

objectives, so that it is not limited to operational employees alone, but also includes

managerial aspects. Performance competence can be defined as the behaviors shown for

those who have high performance, are consistent, effective and efficient compared to those

who have average performance. A competency-based performance management system is

a formal way of shaping employee skills and behavior to succeed in their current role for

future organizational growth. The main benefit of using competence in an organization is

primarily to move human resources towards the targets the company wants to achieve.

Besides, competence will encourage employees to acquire and apply knowledge,

understanding, abilities/skills, values, attitudes and interests according to job needs,

because this is an important instrument for achieving organizational targets.

Current environmental conditions, there has been a change in views regarding various

strategic resources for the organization. These changes are from dominating physical

resources to dominating intangible assets. Competence is the ability to carry out or

perform a job or task which is based on skills and knowledge and is supported by the work

attitude demanded by the job. The competencies possessed by each employee differ from

one another, so that many use this competency dimension to be used as a measuring tool in

assessing individual employee performance. Competence as a person's ability to produce

performance at a satisfactory level in the workplace by applying the characteristics of

knowledge, understanding, abilities/skills, values, attitudes and interests of each individual

in order to carry out their duties and responsibilities effectively and to improve

professional quality standards in work.

According to Gordon in Sutrisno (2011:204) Competence has several aspects, namely

knowledge, understanding, skills, values, attitude, interest. The Tanjung Perak Main Port

Authority Office is a technical implementation unit within the Ministry of Transportation

which is under and responsible to the Director General of Sea Transportation. The Main

Port Authority is a regulator, which in carrying out its activities has the function of

regulating, controlling and supervising port activities at ports that are commercialized. The

Tanjung Perak Main Port Authority Office is a government agency engaged in services,

namely serving services in the form of regulation, control and supervision of ship activities

which include: Notification of ship arrival, Report of ship arrival and departure,

Determination of ship berth, plan of loading and unloading activities, Application moving

ship, Application for extension of the mooring period and Registration of carrying out

business activities. With the many services provided, the Tanjung Perak Main Port

Authority Office is obliged to provide professional services by providing educated and

trained workforce to provide quality public services. The community hopes that the service

process provided is easier, simpler, smoother, faster, precise, friendly, there is certainty

and there is clarity of procedures.

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Measuring the success or failure of government agencies in carrying out their main tasks

and functions is difficult to do objectively, this difficulty is due to the fact that there has

never been a clear performance measurement system that can inform the level of success

of an organization (Achmad, 2009). In the framework of regional autonomy, qualified,

skilled apparatus in the framework of carrying out governmental tasks and satisfying

services to the community are needed. With regard to the administration of government,

especially services to the community, it always brings consequences in the apparatus of

resources that have the ability, skills and are able to produce quality performance.

Organizational goals will be achieved through positive performance from employees,

otherwise the organization will face obstacles in achieving goals when the performance of

employees is ineffective in the sense that they cannot meet the demands of the work that

the organization wants (Achmad, 2009) Therefore, organizational success is greatly

influenced by the performance of its employees. Employee performance is the quality and

quantity of work achieved by an employee in carrying out his duties in accordance with the

responsibilities assigned to him (Mangkunegara, 2011:67). So the definition of

performance can refer to the work results achieved by individuals or groups in an

organization based on a unit of time or using a certain measure.

Main Port Authority Office, it is necessary to conduct an employee performance appraisal.

This performance appraisal can improve employee work activities. Factors that can be used

as a standard for employee performance appraisal are: Quality of work which includes

accuracy, thoroughness, and skills. The work quantity includes routine output as well as

non-routine output. According to Achmad (2009), employee performance is influenced by

several factors, namely job competence, including abilities and skills. Efforts to improve

employee performance require adequate knowledge, skills and abilities. So far, many

government agencies do not have employees with adequate knowledge, skills and abilities,

this is evidenced by the low performance of employees. To achieve maximum and

satisfying work results, it is necessary to have the knowledge, skills and abilities possessed

by an employee in carrying out their work tasks so that employee performance can

increase.

LITERATURE REVIEW AND HYPOTHESIS DEVELOPMENT

Competence

Employee competence is a means of carrying out a job or task which is based on skills and

knowledge and is supported by the work attitude demanded by the job. The skills or

abilities required by employees are demonstrated by the ability to consistently provide an

adequate or high level of performance in a job function. Competence is a term that many

people hear and say. We often hear or even pronounce the terminology in various uses,

especially related to human resource development. There are those who interpret

competence as equivalent to abilities or abilities, others interpret competence as

equivalent to skills, knowledge and are highly educated.

Competence by Spencer (2014:5) is a characteristic that underlies a person in relation to

the effectiveness of individual performance in their work or the basic characteristics of

individuals who have a causal relationship or as a cause and effect with the criteria used as

reference. According to Spencer, competence lies in the inner part of every human being

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Knowledge, Understanding, Ability/Skills, Values, Attitudes and Interests on Employee Performance at the Tanjung Perak Port Authority Office

in Surabaya. Archives of Business Research, 9(3). 224-234.

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and is forever in the personality of a person who can predict broad behavior and

performance in all situations and job tasks. Meanwhile, according to Palan's opinion

(2007:5) there are two terms that arise from two different schools of the concept of

suitability in work. The term is Competency, which is a description of behavior, and

Competence which is a description of a job or job result. According to Brian E. Becher, Mark

Huslid et al. (Sudarmanto, 2009:47) defines competence as knowledge of individual skills,

abilities, or personal characteristics that directly affect job performance. Competence is the

mastery of tasks, skills, attitudes, and appreciation needed to support success. Meanwhile,

according to Wibowo (2014:271) competence is the ability to carry out or perform a job or

task which is based on skills and knowledge and is supported by the work attitude

demanded by the job.

Competence also shows the characteristics of knowledge and skills possessed or needed by

each individual which enables them to perform their duties and responsibilities effectively

and raise the standards of professional quality in their work. Based on this understanding,

it is concluded that competence is a characteristic inherent in a person that causes a person

to be able to predict their surroundings in a job or situation.

Dessler (2010:715), the function of employee competence is to find out critical causal

thinking. The strategic relationship between human resources and company performance

is a strategic map that describes the company's strategic implementation process,

understand the principles of good measurement, the basic foundation of any management

competence relies heavily on good measurement, ensuring the causal relationship of

measurement principles in estimating the causal relationship between resources human

and corporate performance. In practice, these estimates can range from judgmental to

quantitative assumptions and communicate the strategic work of human resources to

superiors.

Factors that affect competence, Michael Zwell (in Wibowo, 2010:339)

1. Beliefs and values, namely beliefs in oneself and in others will greatly influence

behavior. If people believe that they are not creative and innovative, they will

not try to think about new or different ways of doing things.

2. Skills, namely skills to play a role in various competencies. Public speaking is a

skill that can be learned, practiced and refined. Writing skills can also be

improved with instruction, practice and feedback.

3. Experience, namely the expertise of many competencies requires experience in

organizing people, communicating in front of groups, solving problems, and so

on. People who have never been in contact with large and complex

organizations are unlikely to develop organizational intelligence to understand

the dynamics of power and influence in that environment.

4. Personality characteristics, namely in personality, including many factors,

among which are difficult to change. However, personality is not something that

cannot change. In fact, a person's personality can change over time. People

respond to and interact with the forces and the environment around them.

5. Motivation, where motivation is a factor in competence that can change. By

providing encouragement, appreciation of subordinates' work, providing

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individual recognition and attention from superiors can have a positive

influence on the motivation of a subordinate.

6. Emotional issues, an emotional barrier can limit the mastery of competence.

Fear of making mistakes, of being embarrassed, of feeling disliked or not

belonging to all of them tends to limit motivation and initiative. Feelings of

authority can affect communication skills and resolve conflicts with managers.

People may have difficulty listening to others if they don't feel heard.

7. Intellectual Ability, namely competence depending on cognitive thinking such

as conceptual thinking and analytical thinking. It is impossible to improve

through every intervention an organization embodies. Of course, factors such as

experience can increase proficiency in this competency.

8. Organizational Culture, where organizational culture influences human

resource competence in employee recruitment and selection practices,

decision-making practices, habits and procedures to inform workers about how

many competencies are expected, commitment to training and development

and organizational processes that develop leaders. directly affects leadership

competence.

Competency indicators according to Gordon in Sutrisno (2011:204) are as follows:

1. Knowledge, awareness in the cognitive field. For example, an employee knows

how to identify learning and how to do good learning according to existing

needs effectively and efficiently in the company.

2. Understanding, into the cognitive and affective that the individual has. For

example, an employee in carrying out learning must have a good understanding

of the characteristics and conditions effectively and efficiently.

3. Skil, l Something that is owned by an individual who carries out a task or job

assigned to him. For example, the ability of employees to choose work methods

that are considered more effective and efficient.

4. Value, a standard of behavior that has been recognized and psychologically has

integrated in a person. For example, 33 standards of behavior of employees in

carrying out their duties (honesty, openness, democracy and others).

5. Attitude, feeling (happy-displeased, like-dislike) or a reaction to a stimulus that

comes from outside. For example, reactions to economic crises, feelings about

salary increases and so on.

6. Interest, the tendency for someone to do an action. For example, doing a task

activity

Employee Performance

Employee performance is the overall success of a person during a certain period in carrying

out a task compared to various possibilities, such as work standards, targets or targets as

well as predetermined and mutually agreed criteria. Performance in carrying out its

functions does not stand alone, but is related to work ability and motivation.

Mangkunegara, (2007:13), there are two main factors that influence individual

performance, namely the ability and work motivation of the individual. Individual ability

depends on the level of knowledge they have, educational background and skills mastered.

Meanwhile, individual work motivation depends on the attitude as the basic motivation

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Knowledge, Understanding, Ability/Skills, Values, Attitudes and Interests on Employee Performance at the Tanjung Perak Port Authority Office

in Surabaya. Archives of Business Research, 9(3). 224-234.

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and the environment that affects that motivation. Therefore, coaching and increasing

individual performance can be done by coaching and increasing their ability and work

motivation. Increasing work ability is carried out by increasing the aspects that underlie

these elements, namely individual work knowledge and skills and increasing work

motivation by fostering individual mental attitudes and the environment that encourages

individual satisfaction and work willingness.

Hasibuan (2003:160), employee performance is a result of the work achieved by a person

in carrying out his duties on skills, effort and opportunity. Based on the above explanation,

performance is a result achieved by a person in carrying out tasks based on skills,

experience and seriousness and time according to predetermined standards and criteria.

Gomes, Faustino Cardosa (2003:195) employee performance as an expression such as

output, efficiency and effectiveness are often associated with productivity. To achieve the

organization's functioning effectively and in accordance with organizational goals, the

organization must have good employee performance by carrying out its duties in a reliable

manner.

Etymologically, performance comes from the word work performance. As stated by

Mangkunegara (2007: 67) that is the performance of the words job performance or actual

performance (work performance or actual achievement achieved by a person), namely the

quality and quantity of work achieved by an employee in carrying out his duties in

accordance with the responsibilities. given to him. Furthermore, performance can be

divided into two, namely individual performance and organizational performance.

Performance is the result of the execution of a job, whether physical / material or non- physical / non-material. Performance is the level of achievement of results for the

implementation of certain tasks. Simanjuntak (2005:103) also defines individual

performance as the level of achievement or a person's work results from the goals that

must be achieved or tasks that must be carried out within a certain period of time.

Foster and Seeker (2001:29) state that performance is the result achieved by a person

according to the size applicable to the job concerned. Individual performance is the result

of employees' work both in terms of quality and quantity based on predetermined work

standards, while organizational performance is a combination of individual performance

and group performance.

From several definitions of performance according to the experts above, it can be

concluded that the definition of employee performance is the work done by someone in an

organization in order to achieve the goals that the organization wants. Qualitative and

quantitative measures that indicate the level of achievement of a predetermined goal or

goal, which can be calculated and used as a basis for assessing or seeing individual

performance.

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Employee performance indicators are based on the opinion of Mathis and Jackson

(2006:378), which consists of:

1. Quantity is the amount produced expressed in terms such as the number of

units, the number of activity cycles completed. The quantity measured from

employees' perceptions of the number of activities assigned and their results.

2. Quality is adherence to procedures, discipline, dedication. The degree to which

the desired activity results are nearly perfect in terms of adjusting some ideal

way of performing activities, as well as meeting the expected goals of an activity.

The quality of work is measured by employees' perceptions of the quality of

work produced and the perfection of tasks on the skills and abilities of

employees.

3. Reliability is the ability to do the required work with minimum supervision.

Reliability, which includes consistency of performance and reliability in

accurate, correct and precise services.

4. Attendance is the belief that you will come to work every day and according to

working hours.

5. The ability to work together is the ability of a workforce to work together with

others in completing a predetermined task and job, so as to achieve maximum

effectiveness and efficiency.

Hypothesis: Knowledge competence, understanding, abilities/skills, values, attitudes,

interests have a significant effect on employee performance at the Tanjung Perak Main Port

Authority Office.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Population and Sample

The population in this study amounted to 90 people. The sampling technique uses saturated

sampling method. Methods of data collection by interview, literature study, observation and

questionnaires. The data analysis technique was performed using the Simple Linear Regression

method, with the regression equation: Employee Performance = a + β Competence + e

Operational Definition

Competence: is a characteristic that underlies a person related to the effectiveness of

individual performance in their work or basic characteristics of individuals who have a

causal relationship or as a cause and effect with the criteria used as reference, with

indicators of knowledge, understanding, abilities/skills, values, attitudes and interests.

Employee performance: is the work result qualitatively and quantitatively showing the

level of achievement of a predetermined goal or objective which is calculated and used as a

basis for assessing or seeing individual performance, with indicators of quantity, quality,

reliability, presence and ability to work together.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Research Results

In the research results tested using SPSS for windows V.22, all research variables have

passed the Classical Assumption test. The results of the normality test are Kolmgorof-

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Knowledge, Understanding, Ability/Skills, Values, Attitudes and Interests on Employee Performance at the Tanjung Perak Port Authority Office

in Surabaya. Archives of Business Research, 9(3). 224-234.

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Smirnov (K-S) and Asymp. The sig of all variables has a value above α = 0.05, which means

that the data is normally distributed. The multicollinearity test results show that all

independent variables have a tolerance value of more than 0.10 and a VIF value below 10, it

can be concluded that this study does not have a multicolinearity problem. Autocoleration

test results show that the DW value is greater than 1.65 and less than 2.35, so the DW value

does not occur autocoleration. The results of the heteroscedasticity test state that the

significance value for each independent variable on the absolute residual value is greater

than 0.05, which means that there are no symptoms of heteroscedasticity in this study.

Table 1: Determination coefficient test

Model Summary

Model R R Square Adjusted R

Square

Std. Error of

the Estimate

1 ,931a ,867 ,866 4,21302

a. Predictors: (Constant), VAR00021

Table 1, shows the RSquare value of 0.867 which means that 86.7% of the independent

variable competence is able to influence the dependent variable on employee performance

by 86.7%. The correlation value (R) of 0.931 or 93.1% indicates the correlation or

closeness of the relationship between the competency independent variable and the

employee performance dependent variable.

Table 2: Simple Linear Regression Analysis

Coefficientsa

Model Unstandardized Coefficients Standardized

Coefficients

t Sig.

B Std. Error Beta

1

(Constant) -29,970 6,393 -4,688 ,000

Competenc

e

1,718 ,072 ,931 23,995 ,000

a. Dependent Variable: VAR00049

Based on table 2, the following equation is obtained: Employee performance = -29,970 +

1,718 Competence + e Based on the calculation results, it can be concluded that

competency has a significant effect on employee performance.

DISCUSSION

Competence with indicators of knowledge, understanding, abilities/skills), values, attitudes

and interests has an influence on improving the performance of employees of the Tanjung

Perak Main Port Authority Office. This means that employee competencies related to

employee knowledge in general have awareness in the cognitive field, where employees

already know how to identify learning and how to do good learning according to existing

needs effectively and efficiently in the company. The employees of the Tanjung Perak Main

Port Authority Office have an understanding related to the cognitive and affective that the

individual has. Employees in carrying out learning have a good understanding of the

characteristics and conditions effectively and efficiently in carrying out their work.