Penguatan Karakter Kepemimpinan Mahasiswa Melalui Program Pembinaan Kepemimpinan dan Manajemen Organisasi
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36312/sasambo.v7i2.3074Keywords:
Kepemimpinan mahasiswa, manajemen organisasi, pengembangan karakterAbstract
Penguatan karakter kepemimpinan mahasiswa menjadi elemen krusial dalam membentuk pemimpin muda yang tangguh, reflektif, dan bertanggung jawab secara sosial. Kegiatan pengabdian ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan kapasitas kepemimpinan mahasiswa melalui program pembinaan berbasis experiential learning dan pendekatan transformational leadership. Program diikuti oleh 45 mahasiswa aktif dari organisasi kemahasiswaan FIKKM UNDIKMA dan mencakup sesi materi, simulasi kepemimpinan, dan refleksi individu. Evaluasi pre-post menunjukkan peningkatan signifikan: pemahaman peserta meningkat dari 56% menjadi 88%, keterampilan pengambilan keputusan dari 60% menjadi 90%, kesadaran diri dari 54% menjadi 92%, partisipasi aktif dari 62% menjadi 86%, dan kepuasan terhadap materi dari 68% menjadi 94%. Temuan ini menunjukkan bahwa program pembinaan berbasis pengalaman efektif dalam membentuk karakter dan kompetensi kepemimpinan mahasiswa yang relevan dengan kebutuhan organisasi masa kini.
Strengthening Student Leadership Character through Leadership and Organizational Management Development Program
Strengthening student leadership character is essential to shaping resilient, reflective, and socially responsible young leaders. This community engagement program aimed to enhance leadership capacity through a training initiative grounded in experiential learning and transformational leadership approaches. The program involved 45 active students from FIKKM UNDIKMA’s student organizations and included conceptual sessions, leadership simulations, and personal reflection. Pre- and post-program evaluations revealed significant improvements: understanding rose from 56% to 88%, decision-making skills from 60% to 90%, self-awareness from 54% to 92%, active participation from 62% to 86%, and satisfaction with materials from 68% to 94%. These findings confirm that experience-based leadership training effectively strengthens both the character and leadership competence of university students in contemporary organizational settings.
Downloads
References
Alessa, G. (2021). The dimensions of transformational leadership and its organizational effects in public universities in saudi arabia: a systematic review. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.682092
Astin, A. W., & Astin, H. S. (2000). Leadership Reconsidered: Engaging Higher Education in Social Change. Battle Creek, MI: W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Aung, P. and Hallinger, P. (2022). Research on sustainability leadership in higher education: a scoping review. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 24(3), 517-534. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijshe-09-2021-0367
Bass, B. M., & Riggio, R. E. (2006). Transformational Leadership (2nd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Budiarti, Y. (2019). Pendidikan karakter: sebuah upaya kolektif. Jurnal Civic Education: Media Kajian Pancasila Dan Kewarganegaraan, 3(1), 78. https://doi.org/10.36412/ce.v3i1.910
Carragher, J. and Gormley, K. (2016). Leadership and emotional intelligence in nursing and midwifery education and practice: a discussion paper. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 73(1), 85-96. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13141
Dweck, C. S. (2006). Mindset: The new psychology of success. Random House.
Facca, T. and Allen, S. (2011). Using cluster analysis to segment students based on self-reported emotionally intelligent leadership behaviors. Journal of Leadership Education, 10(2), 72-96. https://doi.org/10.12806/v10/i2/rf4
Fukuyama, F. (2018). Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Gardner, L. and Stough, C. (2002). Examining the relationship between leadership and emotional intelligence in senior level managers. Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 23(2), 68-78. https://doi.org/10.1108/01437730210419198
Goleman, D. (2000). Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ. London: Bloomsbury.
Hani, S. (2023). The role of transformational educational leadership in developing the saudi university system. Era Journal for Humanities and Sociology, 7. https://doi.org/10.33193/ejhas.7.2023.244
Hoption, C. (2014). Learning and developing followership. Journal of Leadership Education, 13(3), 129-137. https://doi.org/10.12806/v13/i3/i1
Jenkins, D. (2012). Exploring signature pedagogies in undergraduate leadership education. Journal of Leadership Education, 11(1), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.12806/v11/i1/rf1
Käpylä, J. and Palvalin, M. (2023). Experiential pedagogical model for teaching management and leadership in higher education. https://doi.org/10.36315/2023v2end128
Kember, D., Ho, A., & Hong, C. (2008). The importance of establishing relevance in motivating student learning. Active Learning in Higher Education, 9(3), 249–263.
Kemdikbudristek. (2020). Panduan Merdeka Belajar Kampus Merdeka. Jakarta: Direktorat Jenderal Pendidikan Tinggi.
Knowles, M. S., Holton, E. F., & Swanson, R. A. (2015). The Adult Learner: The Definitive Classic in Adult Education and Human Resource Development. Routledge.
Komalasari, K., & Saripudin, D. (2018). Living Values Education in School’s Habituation Program and Its Effect on the Students’ Character Development. Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 9(3), 370–397.
Kouzes, J. M., & Posner, B. Z. (2017). The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations (6th ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Macaday-Quioco, D. (2024). The prevalent skills and competencies of emotional intelligence for effective educational leadership: a systematic review of literature. International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Analysis, 07(10). https://doi.org/10.47191/ijmra/v7-i10-22
McKim, A., Velez, J., Stewart, J., & Strawn, K. (2017). Exploring leadership development through community-based experiences. Journal of Leadership Studies, 10(4), 6-16. https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.21489
Moore, C., Boyd, B., & Dooley, K. (2010). The effects of experiential learning with an emphasis on reflective writing on deep-level processing of leadership students. Journal of Leadership Education, 9(1), 36-52. https://doi.org/10.12806/v9/i1/rf3
Northouse, P. G. (2018). Leadership: Theory and Practice (8th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
Odom, S., Boyd, B., & Williams, J. (2012). Impact of personal growth projects on leadership identity development. Journal of Leadership Education, 11(1), 49-63. https://doi.org/10.12806/v11/i1/rf3
Odom, S., Donaldson, J., Anderson, K., Gui, H., Glover, J., Burns, A., … & Armenta, V. (2023). Design principles for sustainable leadership learning: a complex analysis of learner experiences. Sustainability, 15(17), 12996. https://doi.org/10.3390/su151712996
Odom, S., Ho, S., & Moore, L. (2015). An examination of the outcomes of the undergraduate leadership teaching assistant (ulta) experience as a high-impact practice in leadership education. Journal of Leadership Education, 14(2), 100-117. https://doi.org/10.12806/v14/i2/r7
Owen, J., Rigaud, S., & McCarron, G. (2021). Hidden costs and commitments: leadership, social class, and experiential learning. New Directions for Student Leadership, 2021(169), 103-110. https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.20426
Satterwhite, R., Sarid, A., Cunningham, C., Goryunova, E., Crandall, H., Morrison, J., … & Miller, M. (2020). Contextualizing our leadership education approach to complex problem solving: shifting paradigms and evolving knowledge: priority 5 of the national leadership education research agenda 2020–2025. Journal of Leadership Studies, 14(3), 63-71. https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.21717
Savage, E., Tapics, T., Evarts, J., Wilson, J., & Tirone, S. (2015). Experiential learning for sustainability leadership in higher education. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 16(5), 692-705. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijshe-10-2013-0132
Schwab, K. (2016). The Fourth Industrial Revolution. Geneva: World Economic Forum.
?engür, D. (2023). Bibliometric analysis of sustainable leadership using visual mapping technique. International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 10(3), 745-761. https://doi.org/10.52380/ijcer.2023.10.3.551
Sheridan, K., Miller, W., & Satterwhite, R. (2023). Centering intersectional sustainability in leadership education: a case for the sustainable development goals. New Directions for Student Leadership, 2023(179), 21-30. https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.20566
Suryadi, D. (2020). Pengembangan Kepemimpinan Mahasiswa melalui Organisasi Kemahasiswaan. Jurnal Pendidikan Indonesia, 9(2), 119–130.
Tabak, F. and Lebrón, M. (2017). Learning by doing in leadership education: experiencing followership and effective leadership communication through role-play. Journal of Leadership Education, 16(2), 199-212. https://doi.org/10.12806/v16/i2/a1
Undang-Undang No. 20 Tahun 2003 tentang Sistem Pendidikan Nasional.
UNDP. (2015). Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. United Nations.
Wilf, S. and Wray?Lake, L. (2021). “that’s how revolutions happen”: psychopolitical resistance in youth’s online civic engagement. Journal of Adolescent Research, 39(4), 827-860. https://doi.org/10.1177/07435584211062121
Wray?Lake, L. and Shubert, J. (2019). Understanding stability and change in civic engagement across adolescence: a typology approach. Developmental Psychology, 55(10), 2169-2180. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000772
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2025 Dadang Warta Chandra Wira Kusuma, Agus Muliadi, Nova Kurnia, Irham Azmi, Muhammad Ikhsan, Aminullah Aminullah, Laras Firdaus
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish with Sasambo: Jurnal Abdimas (Journal of Community Service) agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
