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One of interpersonal soft skill is a skill of interpersonal communication; that is the focus of this research. The purpose of this paper are defined in two parts. First, to explore the interpersonal communication skills of the educational staff. Second, to recognize the power of this interpersonal communication. The research of this paper has been studied by means of qualitative method. The approach of this study is a sequences of in-depth interviews with 4 informants of each faculty with A credit for accreditation examination result. This research result finds that there are 3 interpersonal communication skills of educational staff area. Secondly, there are power of the interpersonal communication skill which have made improvement to service providing in the work unit. The results of this research also explain whether maintaining interpersonal relationship enhances the service providing.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.24297/jssr.v14i0.8150
The Power of Interpersonal Communication Skill in Enhancing Service Provision
Susi Hardjati and Roziana Febrianita
Universitas Pembangunan Nasional “Veteran” Jawa Timur
susihardjati@gmail.com, rozianafebrianita.ilkom@upnjatim.ac.id
Abstract
One of interpersonal soft skill is a skill of interpersonal communication; that is the focus of this research. The
purpose of this paper are defined in two parts. First, to explore the interpersonal communication skills of the
educational staff. Second, to recognize the power of this interpersonal communication. The research of this paper
has been studied by means of qualitative method. The approach of this study is a sequences of in-depth
interviews with 4 informants of each faculty with A credit for accreditation examination result. This research result
finds that there are 3 interpersonal communication skills of educational staff area. Secondly, there are power of
the interpersonal communication skill which have made improvement to service providing in the work unit. The
results of this research also explain whether maintaining interpersonal relationship enhances the service
providing.
Keywords Communication Skill, Interpersonal Communication, Service Provision
A. Introduction
For many years until this time; in human resource perspective, interpersonal soft skill has been reliably positioned
as greater as significant prerequisite for steering successful performance in the division of every work unit. This
revolve around and emerge to the quality provides through service.
Quality and customer satisfaction are thoroughly associated, quality provides an reinforcement to customers to
establish strong connection with the company. This kind of bond in the long track allows companies to
understand customers' expectations and their needs carefully, so the company can increase customer satisfaction;
where the company involvements a pleasant customer experience and eliminates unpleasant customer
experiences.
Providing service quality is a form of consumer valuation of the level of perceived service with the expected
service level. Consumer satisfaction in the service sector is an important and decisive element in developing a
company so that it is able to face competition. The role of soft skills and hard skills of employees must have
spesific quality so as to excellent service can be apprehended effectively. In other words, employees must be able
to build trust among consumers with the purpose of service quality can be fulfilled.
Services in the public sector continue to improve and begin to adopt the private sector to maintain and improve
the quality of services in the government. At present the public service in the government continues to be the
focus of the public to continue to be improved so that the performance of the government apparatus that has
been running also needs the development and improvement of its soft skills in terms of public services. One form
of service in the public sector is educational institution. In some level, educational institution endure to escalate
the value of their services to assist service to students.
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In human resources perspective, interpersonal soft skill has been reliably positioned as greater as an significant
prerequisite for steering successful performance in the division of every work unit. It aspects sensible to
determine that one of the most obstructing forces to providing effectively is a hardship of maintaining
interpersonal soft skill.
Hard skill and soft skill practically a proper combination all corporations necessitate for each employee and staf
today. Amid HR practitioners, impending hard skills alone is now becoming superseded and starting to improve
employee soft skills by providing training and motivation on a regular basis. This can be seen in the job
advertisements of various companies which also require soft skills, such as team work, communication skills, and
interpersonal relationships, in job requirements.
Mary Bambacas remarked that over decades, many studies has been focusing on the research on commitment of
organization, or else organization communication, left alone interest in the roles of communication skills and
interpersonal relationship. Whereas these two aspect are related to each other, as well being life support to one
another (2008 : 52)
Furthermore, Bambacas suggest whether the cumulative emphasize on providing service, accomodates the urge
to understand how the communication skill and interpersonal relationship going on between human resource
and clients emerge the significant of the roles itself.
More spesifically this study wants to explain more about these following : (1) how the communication skill of
educational staff is; (2) What power of the interpersonal communication skill ruling in providing service.
B. Literature Review
Interpersonal Soft Skill
The interpersonal relationship skills are very important aspect in measuring service selling in recent times.
Muhaiminul Islam and friends affirm Rajandelved theory of service and industry; whether most measurable
features in a person’s performance were interpersonal skills, salesmanship, technical skills and sales techniques.
According to the study, the non-verbal communication plays a vital role in interpersonal skills sets; whereas
interpersonal skills like ability to manipulate (2016 :79).
Klein, DeRouin, and Salas in Bachman define interpersonal skills as an umbrella term. This term refers to “goal
directed behaviors, including communication and relationship-building competencies, employed in interpersonal
interaction episodes characterized by complex perceptual and cognitive processes, dynamic verbal and nonverbal
interaction exchanges, diverse roles, motivations, and expectancies.”
On the other hand, Hunt and Baruch in Bachman stated that interpersonal skills development in the perspective
of human resource management revolves around leadership, negotiation, and communication skills (2018).
Lorraine Pellack once specified whether interpersonal relationships will have a tremendous impact on the service
given to patrons. Interactions and congeniality between staff members breeds approachability.
Interpersonal skills can be developed at any point in life. Time spent developing interpersonal relationships
between co-workers is a necessity for good customer service and a healthy, inviting work environment (2003).
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Khan & Ahmad examined that interpersonal skill conclude ability to motivate, communicate and building team
(2012). As a final point, Katherine Quinn defines interpersonal skill as the ease and comfort of communication
between individuals and their associates, seniors level, juniors level, clients, and other stakeholders. Furthermore
Quinn believe whether interpersonal skill contains the capability to inspire others, conflict managing, effective
communication, and team building.(2014).
Interpersonal Communication Skill
Abbasi and friend examined that several of studies describe the significance of interaction; a few show the
importance of communication skill, which goes ahead of social skills by containing affective, cognitive, and
behavioral essentials. (2011 : 243)
Amit Singh described interpersonal communication by means of the process of transmitting information and joint
understanding from one person to another, which is very essential for the success of any organization. Therefore
it must be effectively handled to ensure the accomplishment of the organization’s goals.
Furthermore, Singh stated that inside the organization; a communication must work as the flow of information,
materials, perceptions and understandings among the numerous stakeholders of the organization, all the
methods, media and means of the communication, all the networks, channels, systems of communication or
organizational structure, all the person to person interchange or interpersonal communication. They includes
all aspects of communication and make it comprehensive, because it advises that there is so plentiful things are
going on in the organization (2014 : 36).
Sharon Pope explained that interpersonal communication skills are defined into the following four categories:
first, communication that includes verbal, nonverbal and listening skills; second, conflict resolution and
negotiation skills; third, collaboration and teamwork skills; and fourth, cross-cultural skills (2015:15).
Pope also affirms the key definition of interpersonal communication skill; the writer shriveled the conceptual into
the following table :
Classification of Interpersonal Communication Skill
Communication
Collaboration
Conflict
Resolution
Cultural
Awareness
Written and verbal
skills, active listening
Building relationships,
trust
building,
building reputation
Solving problems
within the
workplace,
negotiation
technique,
conflict
management
Understanding
other cultures,
tolerance
Table 1 Interpersonal Skill Conceptual Providing Service in Human Resource Management
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In a perspective of human resource development, service quality is a concept that is undeniable to be put aside;
compare to product quality alone. Between success and failure in both service and manufacturing firms, quality of
services can be the difference. Principles like service quality, customer satisfaction and customer value have
become the ideal concerns in both industrial and service organizations as service quality may convey a corporate
a sustainable competitive benefit.
According to Thomas Garavan, the ultimate significance is normally considered as a customer impression alone.
This is similar to a defining moment to delineate every point of interaction between customer and front-office
staff. The impartial key must be continuously to come across customer expectations and to minimalize
occurrences when customers are disappointed. Garavan, Costine and Heraty, hereby identify three components
to make up a good service for front office employee or staff, they are following: skill, knowledge and attitude.
(1997 : 74)
C. Methodology
Research Methods
This paper used qualitative research method with comparative data analysis. The type of qualitative research
tends to understand phenomena in a descriptive way in a form of languages and words, in certain context by
using some systematic methods. The sensitivity of the researcher is needed to reveal social symptoms by
mobilizing all the senses.
Sufiyan in Ditha mentioned whereas qualitative method is used research on some group of human being, some
objects, some conditions, some thoughts or else nowadays phenomenon. The significant goal of qualitative
research itself to focus on making description, systematically a depiction, factual as well accurate about some
facts, natures also relations among studied phenomenon. (2016 : 71)
Along with this concept, Rakhmat simply explained whereas in qualitative study only allows researcher to
describe descriptively instead of explaining any relations, examine hypothesis or making prediction.
Furthermore Rakhmat stated explicitly features characteristics of qualitative study is researcher is an observer
whereas he acts as observer who observe indications and do the analysis to finally draw a conclusion.
Research Informants
This part rejoinders about the informants of the research. Informants of this research are educational staff of
faculties in UPN “veteran” Jawa Timur. These observed faculties having A credit as result to accreditation
examination, these are Social and Political Sciences Faculty (FISIP), Computer Science Faculty (FIK), Agricultural
Faculty (FAPERTA) along with Economical & Business Faculty (FEB). The informants have been concerned as
person in charge (PIC) only for education and teaching division in each work unit. Based on the informants
criteria’s above obtained the following result :
No.
FACULTY
INITIAL
POSITION
1.
FEB
I1
PIC for Education & Teaching Division
2.
FISIP
I2
PIC for Education & Teaching Division
3.
FAPERTA
I3
PIC for Education & Teaching Division
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4.
FIK
I4
PIC for Education & Teaching Division
Table 2. Informants Data Data Collecting Techniques
a. Data Collecting Technique
Data of this qualitative research has been collected and gathered using following techniques :
1) Interview
Interview is accomplished in order to acknowledge the point of view, some occurrences, activates, feelings of
informants. This purposed to ascertain the changes in family communication. In this research, interview process is
finalized after the observational approach.
2) Observational approach
Observation performed by doing participant-observation to informants within context providing service to
student in consort with the interpersonal relationship accomplished. The use of observational participant is to
neglect the complexity of attitude toward behavior. (Paterson : 2003). In this case, researcher made series visit to
informants offices and observing informant activities for 3 months.
3) Documentation study
Burhan Bungin reveals documentation study is some kind of method to quest related historical data. These kind
of documents were needed to enhance researcher’s theoretical concepts and improve analysis related to human
resources studies. Documents to this research are typical preceding research’s and journals (2013).
a. Result and Discussion
Interpersonal Communication Skill
Smith stated that interpersonal communication skills have been defined as ability to work well with people, and
involve your acceptance of others, without prejudice. This does not always mean that one should like the person,
but one is able to overcome the dislike in order to achieve the tasks (2009 : 1).
I1 of FEB said that in her work unit it is likely to an open communication. Along with the respond of a work
comment; it is naturally allowed to respond, among students, peer, colleague, superiors or else senior level. This
kind of interpersonal communication has been done directly, in other word, face to face. I2 of FISIP support this
statement. He mentioned that in his work unit, communication has been accommodate face to face either.
On the other hand, I3 of FIK and I4 of FAPERTA mentioned that once for typical students, this interpersonal
communication has been done intermediatedly. This means, device has been involved. Technology development
allowed this type of interpersonal communication is being conveyed. Informants also informed that, the
communication not only conducted verbally. When a situation came up, sometimes sign language and symbols
are used. As explained by I4 following:“in a crowded situation, something must be decided. And it should involve
certain sign to make someone or a group of students understand the answer of their question. In the mean time,
doing afford to make them realize that these educational stuffs were unable to respond verbally.”
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Robinson once specified whether interpersonal communication competence consists of a set of skills, knowledge
about communication, and self-evaluation. Competent interpersonal communication skills include self disclosure,
owned feelings and thoughts, and descriptiveness and support. (2006: 1).
As I1 stated following,
“Aside from working loads, we usually motivate each other. What’s more about working burdens and
responsibility. We always are being reminder to each other, as well evaluate one another. I believe it is for our
own good.”
I2 and I3 support these sentences. They further explained whether among colleague, superior and juniors used to
share thoughts on policy, and work together on facing different conflict. I4 added that among educational staffs
also sharing opinion and ideas for better future on working policy. These occurrences, emphasize DeVito
statement that in context to understand interpersonal communication means to comprehend any openness
between the communicator as well.
DeVito stated that there are three principles of interpersonal communication, and they are : (1) interpersonal
communication Is a transactional Process, whereas between speaker changing many things such as point of view,
values, belief, also message; (2) Interpersonal communication is purposeful, these are combination of five
purposes and they are to learn, to relate,to influence, to play, and to help, (3) interpersonal communication is
ambiguous, whereas the message of one another can have multi interpretation (2013 : 20).
In this context, informants mentioned that aside from teamwork, together in working place they share the same
goals. This relationship have strategies also rules, as well norms to be considered about amongst the staffs. This
emphasize that amongst the educational staff is living the stage of working relationship.
The Power of Interpersonal Communication Skill to Enhance Service Providing.
In the finding of their research, Sarapaivanich and Patterson mention whether there is an act of transferring a
message to others and making it unstated in a eloquent method. This concept so called as communication. (2014
: 5).
Thus, in a professional services context, communication quality refers to the formal as well as informal sharing of
meaningful and timely information between service provider and client in an empathetic, respectful manner. Its
primary purpose is to reduce information asymmetry via educating, keeping clients informed in a language that
they can understand, and in doing so sending a signal of overall.
In this context, the result of the interview and observation show that 4 faculty and 4 informants having typial
interaction in providing service for student. I1 informants of FEB mention that every educational staff in division
educating and teaching is responsible for spesific job description such as, student schedule for her-registration.
The same explanation given by I2 informant of FISIP, along with I3 of FIK and I4 of Faperta.
According to Margareth Patrickson, the deeper communication is build, the more it links to commitment.
Therefore every staff should communicate daily with their subordinates, or supervisors, or clients typically giving
feedback on performance, executing performance appraisals, providing information and so forth. These actions
are perceived to emerge levels of commitment (2016 : 53).
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Interpersonal communication is communication that is occur between 2 people whereas the perception is also
made by two parties engaged. (2013 : 71) In this explanation context of Julia Wood, I1 informs to build
commitment for herself, she usually demand an affirmatin to peers and colleague as well to students what needs
to be improved from the way they provide the service itself.
On the other hand, I2 used to ask the students what is to serve for more or else, if the students need more
helpful acts. I3 stated it is important to notice the side of the client, in this case, the student that is being served,
how the service is accomodated. I4 underlined that all responds; how the clients perceived the service, will
somehow initiate more willingness to oblige in providing a better service. Thus, the way clients perceived leads
to perception are able to be used as reputation framing.
Conclusion
The conclusion of the result, the interpersonal communication skill of educational staff parted in four substances;
(1) verbal, nonverbal communication and listening, (2) conflict management, and (3) teamwork skill. Second
conclusion is, there are powers of interpersonal communication skill that have been enduring how the service is
provided, which are (1) to make staff-self more commit to the job, (2) to construct reputation toward clients (3) to
sustain working environment. Third conclusion, the skill of interpersonal communication convey the connection
into another relationship’s stage. There has been better service providing since educational staff maintain good
interpersonal relationship with students, supervisors, superiors as well colleague and it is called workplace
relationship.
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