HUBUNGAN ANTARA KOMITMEN ORGANISASI DAN IKLIM ORGANISASI DENGAN KEPUASAN KERJA KARYAWAN UNIVERSITAS MUHAMMADIYAH SURAKARTA

By. R. Yudhi Satria R.A

This research objective is to find out the correlation between organizational commitment and organizational climate with the job satisfaction.

Job satisfaction functions as a dependent variable on this research. There are two variables functioning as independent variables, those are the commitment and the climate of organization. The hypothesis proposed in this research is divided into one major hypothesis, that is the correlation between organizational commitment and organizational climate with the job satisfaction. Two minor hypothesis proposed in the study are the positive correlation between organizational climate with work satisfaction, and the positive correlation between organizational climate with the job satisfaction.

The sample of this research is included three hundreds employees of Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta, acquired by random sampling technique. Data is collected through questionnaire method and analyzed by regression method.

The result of this research indicates that there is a significant correlation between organizational commitment and organizational climate with the work satisfaction, while the dominant free variable and the commitment variable becomes the major contributor in affecting the job satisfaction. The research also indicates that there is a positive and significant correlation between organizational commitment and the job satisfaction, in which the continuous and the normative factors become the dominant. This research also proves that there is a significant correlation between organizational climate with the work satisfaction. The dominant factors are conformity and organization clarity.

The other result of this research indicates that there is a very significant difference between organizational commitment, organizational climate and the job satisfaction on many work units where the employees work.

Keywords: job satisfaction, organizational commitment, organizational climate

MERAIH LOYALITAS PELANGGAN

By.

Ahmad Mardalis

Customer loyalty has been recognized as the dominant factor in a business organization's success. Therefore it has received considerable attention in both marketing and management theory and practice. This article describes factors that determine customer loyalty and explores the essential strategic consid-erations for companies contemplating the development of loyalty initiatives. It also establishes customer satisfactions, service quality, institution image, and switching barrier are cultivated in a manner that leads to loyalty.

Keywords: customer loyalty, customer satisfactions, service quality, institution image, and switching barrier

Taxes, Financing Decisions, and Firm Value

By. Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French

We use cross-section regressions to study how a firm’s value is related to dividends and debt. With a good control for profitability, the regressions can measure how the taxation of dividends and debt affects firm value. Simple tax hypotheses say that value is negatively related to dividends and positively related to debt. We find the opposite. We infer that dividends and debt convey information about profitability (expected net cash flows) missed by a wide range of control variables. This information about profitability obscures any tax effects of financing decisions.

Ascending Auctions and Linear Programming

By. Sushil Bikhchandani, Sven de Vries, James Schummer & Rakesh V. Vohra

Based on the relationship between dual variables and sealed-bid Vickrey auction payments (established by Bikhchandani and Ostroy), we consider simpler, specific formulations for various environments. For some of those formulations, we interpret primal-dual algorithms as ascending auctions implementing the Vickrey payments. We focus on three classic optimization problems: assignment, matroid, and shortest-path problems.