Kiai's Leadership in Managing Human Resources

Abstract

The focus of this article review is Kiai's leadership in managing human resources at a modern boy boarding school in Southeast Sulawesi. The purpose of the study is to explore Kiai's leadership practices in aspects: 1) human resource planning; 2) organization of human resources; 3) leadership of human resources; and 4) supervision of human resources. Through a qualitative-descriptive approach, this study obtained findings including: 1) Kiai's leadership in human resource planning is carried out in the segments of students, teachers, and caregivers; 2) organizing human resources applied in the form of class division, dormitory, empowerment of talent-talent institutions, teacher empowerment in various activities; 3) leadership of human resources is indicated by the involvement of Kiai in various activities of students and teachers; 4) supervision of human resources is carried out by empowering clerical organizations and active involvement of students in enforcing discipline.

The Leadership Style of Kiai Manshur in Forming Anfa’linnas Students

“…Kiai is not only in charge of leading the pesantren but also have many roles such as educators, community liaison, and pesantren managers. Syahrul et al (2019) states that the Kiai has a big involvement in managing human resources, including planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Kiai often directly involve in various student and teacher activities, discipline enforcement and resource empowerment.…”

“…This raises a question, what is the position of pesantren in this modern era? Whether pesantren follow a modernization system such as changing management and curriculum or they are still as traditional educational institutions, it depends on the leadership of the kiai (Alam, 2018;Syahrul, Mukhtar, & Akbar, 2019;Zamakhsyari, 1980). Kiai is also described as a leader who has skills and a noble personality that is respected by ustadz (teacher) and santri (student) (Ziemek, 1988).…”