The Administrative Management Capacity of Village Chief

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to find out the village chief’s capacity of administrative management in Mootilango Village, Anggrek Subdistrict, North Gorontalo Regency, Gorontalo Province. This is a qualitative study that involves several informants, including the Chief, Secretary, Community Representatives of Mootilango Village, the Head of Village’s Consultative Board (BPD) and the Head of Government Affairs of Mootilango Village, the Chief of Anggrek Subdistrict and The Head of Anggrek Subdistrict Government Section. The data were collected from interview and documentation and analysed by using qualitative analysis. There are two indicators of the village chief’s capacity of administrative management, which are managerial, service and skill capacity. The result finally reveals that the village chief’s capacity of administrative management in Mootilango Village arrives at quite good category in understanding the administration through capacity improvement in managing the administration in Mootilango Village, Anggrek Subdistrict, North Gorontalo Regency. Three strategies are applied to the indicators of; a) managerial capacity of planning the program regarding village improvement based on the vision, mission and goal, to develop this village through management function (planning, organizing, actuating and controlling) of village chief’s leadership to all societies, through people’s income and welfare improvement, b) service capacity of improving the co-workers’ discipline in serving the people’s needs c) skill capacityto provide the importance of administrative management education and training in arranging administration matter so that the data are entirely filled.

Keywords: the Village Chief’s Capacity,Village Administrative Management