Employees Competence Models on Impact to Performance KUD in Riau Province Indonesia

Cooperatives play an important role in the economic development of Indonesia because it can improve the welfare of the community and stronger cooperative members because they through its unique character, which is a combination of economic and social character. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of competence for management and variety of products / services to the participation of members of the cooperative and its impact on the performance of KUD cooperatives in Riau Province. The object of this study is KUD Mekar Jaya namely large, KUD Makmur Lestari the medium and KUD Sumber Rezeki is a small cooperatives with the total number of its members as many as 1,290 people. The sampling technique using proportional random sampling technique. Research models using Structural Equation Modelling with the variables studied consisted of two exogenous variables and the intervening variables and the endogenous variable. Is the competence of the management of exogenous variables (X1) and variety of products / services (X2) and the intervening variable is the participation of members (X3), whereas exogenous variable is the performance of KUD (Y). The method used in this research is quantitative method. To process the data used path analysis method two steps with the help of soft ware SPSS 16. The results showed that there was a positive and significant effect on the competence of the management of the performance. Keywords: competence of the management, variety of products / services, participation of members, the performance of KUD