Strategy in Improving Research Productivity of the Lecturers

This study aims to express comprehensively about motivation in lecturers' research, institutional policies in supporting the research process, and lecturers’ research productivity in teacher training and education science Mataram. This research is a qualitative research by using the intrinsic case study approach. The results of this study showed that 1) the motivation of lecturers in conducting research is influenced. a) Intrinsic factors: financial, pleasure in conducting research, scientific responsibility, and desire to fulfill rank, achievement motivation, language and ability to research, b) extrinsic factors, including: institutional support, competition, research culture, and campus policy. 2) Policy in increasing the productivity of lecturers' research results includes: a) the determination of the research mission, b) providing research support facilities, c) optimizing the functions of the center of research and community service to manage research activities, and d) encouraging the publication of lecturers’ research through internal journals. 3) There is an increase in the quantity and quality of lecturers’ research each year which is encouraged by the availability of a forum for lecturers to publish their research in internal journals. Based on the findings of this study, it must be recommended in order to be a continuous and comprehensive effort to improve the productivity of the results of lecturers 'research, especially in publishing the results of the lecturers' research into national and international journals. Keywords—strategy; research productivity; lecturers