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

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.
Keywords: Resources Sharing Innovation, Competitiveness, Manufacturing Industries