The Human Resource Empowerment Model for Village Credit Institutions (LPD) in Badung Regency Bali Province

The Village Credit Insitutions (LPD) in Badung Regency, Bali Province have experienced a rapid growth. In facing the ever-changing environment, the LPDs must be supported with competent human reousrces, in order to be more professional and ready to compete. The aim of this research is to indentify the opportunities and challenges, strengths and weaknesses of the LPD, and to design a human resource empowerment model for the LPDs. The analysis technique utilized in this research is the descriptive analysis. In formulating the HR empowerment model, the concepts of strategic management is used, namely by analyzing the LPD’s strategic position using the Internal External Matrix (IE Matrix). The research results show that the LPD’s strategic position in the IE Matrix is in cell I, which explains that the LPD has a high opportunity and strong competitiveness. A suitable strategy for entities in this position to grow and develop is by conducting the intensive strategy through market penetration, market development, and product development. The human resource empowerment model which encompasses the managers, supervisors, and employees recommended for LPDs in order to successfully implement their strategy is the individual capacity development empowerment model, through training programs to increase the individual characteristic qualities to be more effective and efficient in performing their tasks. The individual capacity development comprises the personality capacity, work capacity and professional capacity development. Keywords: Empowerment model, Individual capacity development.