THE INFLUENCE OF PROFESSIONALISM AND WORK STRESS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF WIDYATAMA UNIVERSITY LECTURERS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic that has not yet recovered, making educational
institutions have not been able to fully right activities such as normal conditions. This
research aims to examine the effect of professionalism and work stress on
performance of lecturers of Widyatama University Bandung during the Covid-19

pandemic. Performance of a lecturer was related to the competence and clarity of his
duties. One of the factors that determine a person's work competence is
professionalism and work stress. The organization must understand how a person's
performance is well formed. One factor that can explain the performance of a worker
at the time of the Covid-19 pandemic like this is the clarity of tasks that are
systematically measured and relieve work stress from each worker. individual
workers. Data for this study was obtained through questionnaires, distributed to
lecturers using google form. Seventy questionnaires were returned and completely
filled. The results of hypothesis testing showed that professionalism had a positive
effect on lecturers’ performance, and work stress had a negative effect on lecturers’
performance. The implication of this research is that the management of educational
institutions must be able to develop details of the work and clarity of roles/authorities
that are deemed appropriate and attractive. If the perception of lecturers meets their
expectation about the details of the work or tasks he does, then their performance
will be high. Professionalism and good management of work stress will trigger the
formation of higher performance.