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Got a second job is not easy. If not managed wisely can lead to counterproductive effects. Consider the following tips, Steady State Position, before running the job or the business side, make sure first that your position in the company’s possible to run it. Outstanding technical workers, less likely.

If you’re still in a technical position, it is better first count carefully if you want a side job. The intensity of the work of the technical part is usually high, strict working hours. One-one you are reprimanded even fired. Because the concentration and your energy drained by a side job. As with the position of general manager who has no attachment to the labor time. However, if the application of strict working hours also applies to managers, should be considered first.

Avoid conflict of interest, select job on the side that is not similar to the business at the company where you work. If similar, there will be competition between you and the company, and led to relationships that are not harmonious. Select the field you know. Suppose you love and hobby of sewing. You can receive stitches or sewing manufacture goods that may be preferred to others. Do not cheat, use of time side job outside office hours.

Although a side job is so exciting, but remember, your main job should not be neglected. You can make use of free time and your weekends. Do not steal office work time. If you intend selling in the office, looking for a break or before and after working hours. In this way no one feels disturbed by your activities. After all you have to stay focused finish your main job target.

On many occasions, the experts frequently heard that many people often see contradictory views, such as imbalance condition between the abundant natural resources of this country and the economic circumstances where many people are still suffering from poverty. People then wondered to this phenomenon.

There are many people who graduate from high school and even from university, but then become unemployed. Some people also thought that the situation was caused by the lack of spirit to become entrepreneurs, so they would need education about entrepreneurship.

The decision makers are making statement that it is necessary to strengthening the life skill, entrepreneurship education, and others. They think that if the young people have this capability, then they will automatically have the opportunity to develop the business.

However, is that kind of opinion always right? Of course not. Those who have the spirit and skills of entrepreneurship are not always easy to develop their business. In fact, many of them often went bankrupt. Lately, we often see that many small and medium businesses went bankrupt and forced to quit from their business.

The success of a business often seen from limited factors, such as skills, capital and entrepreneurship. But actually, there are other factors that are also important, for example the ability to compete in a harsh environment. The experts said that this environmental factor is the one that can determine the success of a business. However, this factor often being ignored.

We often heard rumors both in government companies and private companies that promoting an employee to a new job can emerge many problems. Classic criteria for someone to be promoted to higher position according to management theory are: has enough time to acquire that position, which can be indicate from education, seniority, quite capable according to the written test.

The management believes and predicts that this person is able to lead and innovate for the company’s progress. He is able to become a positive motivator for the subordinates so that he can build a solid working team. But sometimes specific things above are neglected, for the matter of regionalism, a manager is pressing by the board of directors, a letter from the director general, so the classic problems often occur when that person already take that position. But this thing is hard to change. Probably we as eastern people often difficult to distinguish between family matter and job matter. This thing does not apply to foreign companies.

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All companies will always face complex and rapid changing environment in the present and future. This kind of situation requires a very different management system which was successfully been used in the past. Performance measurement is a very important factor for the company. All this time, performance measurement is traditionally focused only on the financial side.

Company’s performance measurement that focused only on the financial side often ignored the other aspects. To fix this situation, then non-financial measurement is include, for example, from the aspect of time, customer satisfaction, quality and adaptation process in changing situation.

Balanced Scorecard is an alternative of this performance measurement. The advantage of Balanced Scorecard approach is that this approach seeks to translate the company’s vision and strategy into objectives and measures which can be seen from four perspectives, namely: financial perspective, customer perspective, internal business process perspective and learning and growth process perspective.

The discussion in this research will be focused on the third perspective, namely the internal business process perspective. Nevertheless, the author does not regard this perspective as a separate perspective fom the other perspectives. In this internal business process perspective, the manager is trying to identify the critical processes in order to achieve the objectives that contained in the customer perspective and financial perspective.

Therefore, the company usually will develop the goal of this internal business process perspective, after the company set the goal in the financial perspective first.