Social Infrastructure Essay

CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION
1.1. Background
The current economic growth has always been closely related to the infrastructure development in recent years and become the most important topics in both academic and political sphere (Fedderke & Garlick, 2008). The relationship between infrastructure development and economic growth is the growing inadequacy of an infrastructure will help a company, businesses and also an investor to be able to reach the desired area. This will lead to the development of lagging regions and indirectly this development will lead to the economic growth due to the increase in sale and purchase transactions in this area. Increased of spending from purchase indicates a consumption. Consumption will affect the increase of

Infrastructure is a major supporter of the system functions social systems and economic systems in everyday life community. The system can be defined as infrastructure facilities or basic structures, equipment, installations built and needed for the proper functioning of social systems and economic system of society. Citing from Fedderecke & Garlick, based on The World Bank (1994), they categorized infrastructure into three main categories, which are infrastructure economy, social infrastructure, and administration infrastructure. Infrastructure economy is an infrastructure that help the economy activities which consist of public utilities, public work and transportation sectors. For social infrastructure is all infrastructures that help social activities such as education, health, living place and entertainment. While infrastructure administration is consist of law, administration control and

Infrastructure development in East Java is important because East Java is a major economic centre for eastern Indonesia. This is because the East Java has a strategic position in international trade lanes. Strategic role in East Java, among others as a gateway to the movement of goods and services from or to the eastern part of Indonesia. And also Tanjung Perak in Surabaya, East Java, is the main port for export and import activity. Development of transport infrastructure to connect each city in eastern Java is very high. The importance of infrastructure development in eastern Java to make a lot of building consultants vying race to get rations from the government project. Many consultants’ buildings in major cities in Indonesia such as Jakarta, Bandung, Yogyakarta and Surabaya start targeting eastern Java as land for a profit.
To compete with the competitors, a company should be able to maintain the quality of the results of its work. One way to keep the results of the quality of work is to improve employee performance. Based from Thao & Hwang (2015) there are some factors that influencing employee performance. Those factors are leadership, organizational culture, working environment, motivation, training and