SIGNIFICANCE OF RESOURCES SHARING INNOVATION IN INDUSTRIAL HUMAN COMPETITIVENESS: EMPIRICAL STUDY AT THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES

Abstract

Banten Province is listed as the region with the highest unemployment rate in Indonesia, although there
are 20,642 company units in this area (BPS, 2019). Low competitiveness of job seekers was due to gaps
that arose in relation to job seekers competencies and company needs. This study was conducted to
examine the significance of Resources Sharing Innovation in the relationship between the competence of
vocational school graduates and human competitiveness in the manufacturing industry. This study was
conducted at Serang District, Cilegon City and Tangerang District, Banten Province. The samples were
taken using purposive sampling technique (Sekaran, 2008). The data collection instrument was an online
questionnaire sent via the google form application.
Questionnaires from 217 respondents became the source of study data that were processed with IBM
Amos version 2.2. The results of statistical tests obtained the estimate value of the effect of Resource
Sharing Innovation (RSI) on the Industrial Human Competitiveness of 0.247, the CR value of 2.839 and
the p-value of 0.005. The conclusion to be drawn was that a significant and positive effect of RSI on
Industrial Human Competitiveness at the 5% significance level. In addition, the willingness to share
resources will support these results with the aim of increasing the industrial human competitiveness.