THE ANALYSIS OF FACTORS AFFECTING QUALIFIED WORKERS CHOOSING USA COMPANIES AS WORKPLACE USING DENISON ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE MODEL

Abstract

Based on the result of mini research done by researcher, it is identified that foreign companies, especially USA companies are more favorable as workplace for qualified workers in Indonesia than local companies. Surely it is serious problems for local companies and government which still need those people to build this country. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to identify the dominant factors of USA based companies’ culture whereas those dominant factors are the reasons why those qualified workers choose USA companies. The result may aid local companies in managing the culture to be better in future. Researcher used Denison Organizational Culture Model (DOCM) because the comprehensive attributes is believed can assess the culture of USA companies well. It has 4 cultural traits which are Involvement, Adaptability, Consistency and Mission with 3 components index in each cultural traits. Each of these traits is related to several criteria of effectiveness in organization. At deeper level, there is belief and assumptions which difficult to generalize about across organization. Besides DOCM, there are also Deal & Kennedy Culture Model, Hofstede Cultural Factors and others, as the supporting model for this research. In achieving the objective of this research, Factor Analysis is the most suitable research method because the result obtained will be in form of several new factors which extracted from many variables. Thus, the factors formed are only the dominant ones. On the other hands, for data collection, researcher used primary sources which collected from questionnaire made by researcher. This questionnaire is made based on all the characteristics of DOCM and distributed to 76 respondents which are the workers of USA based companies in Indonesia. Based on result of this research, it is identified and interpreted that there are 10 dominant factors affect qualified workers to work in USA based companies with most dominant ones is acknowledged. Qualified workers interested to work in USA companies because their existences are being acknowledged by companies and in return, they acknowledged the position also needs of organization and try to accommodate it. Since Acknowledge is the most dominant factors, then local companies and government definitely should learn about it if they want to be as success as USA companies in absorbing qualified human resources or workers.