Departemen Pemukiman dan Prasarana Wilayah adalah instansi pemerintah yang mempunyai fungsi pembinaan, pengaturan, dan fasilitasi penyelenggaraan pembangunan fisik di bidang jalan raya, jembatan, pengairan, permukiman, dan penataan ruang. Permasalahan yang menjadi sorotan masyarakat selama ini adalah secara umum kinerja Pegawai Negeri Sipil Departemen Pemukiman dan Prasarana Wilayah dianggap belum memenuhi harapan masyarakat. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menjawab rumusan pertanyaan penelitian, yaitu : bagaimana gaanbaran kondisi manajemen kinerja, kualitas pegawai, motivasi kerja, dan strategi apa yang perlu dilakukan oleh Departemen Pemukiman dan Prasarana Wilayah untuk dapat meningkatkan kinerja pegawai. Teori tentang manajemen klnerja, motivasi, perencanaan sumber daya manusia, pelatihan dan pengembangan, serta manajemen strategi, digunakan sebagai dasar atau rujukan -dalam melakukan penelitian. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode penelitian deskriptif, dengan pengumpulan data melalui kuesioner. Sampel ditetapkan dengan menggunakan teknik stratified random sampling. Analisis data menggunakan teknik statistik uji tanda positif dan negatif terhadap aspek-aspek manajemen kinerja, kualitas pegawai dan motivasi kerja.
Hasil analisis mengindikasikan bahwa kondisi ketiga aspek tersebut masiih rendah, belum memenuhi harapan pegawai. Dan ketiga aspek yang kondisinya cukup memprihatinkan adalah aspek motivasi pegawai, yang perlu mendapat perhatian khusus dari pimpinan Departemen Pemukiman dan Prasarana Wilayah. Formulasi strategi untuk peningkatan kinerja pegawai, dimaksudkan agar dapat mencapai kualitas Pegawai Negeri Sipil yang prima di dalam melakukan pelayanan terhadap publik di era reformasi dan era globalisasi, dengan melakukan upaya pembenahan dan perbaikan-perbaikan terhadap aspek-aspek kritis yang berkaitan dengan kinerja Pegawai Negeri Sipil tersebut. Dalam melakukan strategi untuk meningkatkan kinerja pegawai, yang hares dilakukan Departemen Pemukiman dan Prasarana Wilayah terlebih dahulu adalah membenahi dan meningkatkan motivasi Pegawai Negeri Sipil, agar timbul gairah kerja. Selanjutnya melakukan pembenahan dan perbaikan terhadap kondisi manajemen kinei a dan kualitas pegawai, sehingga diharapkan kinerja Pegawai Negeri Sipil meningkat secara optimal sebagai abdi negara dan abdi masyarakat yang prima.
The Ministry of Settlement and Regional Infrastructure is an Government Institution than has a function of Building (Guiding), Arrangement and Facilitating the implementation of Physical Construction such as constructing Main Road, Bridge, Irrigation, Settlement, and Spatial Planning. Problem that becomes the public exposed along this time is generally the performance Government Official of The Ministry of Settlement and Regional Infrastructure assumed has not been fulfilling the public expectation. The goals of this research to answer the formulation of research question, which are how is the condition picture of performance management, employee quality, working motivation, and what strategy that has to done by The Ministry of Settlement and Regional Infrastructure so they can increase the employee performance. Theory about Performance Management, Motivation, Human Resource Planning, Training and Development, also the Strategy Management used as the basic or reference in conducting the research. The Research Method that used is the Descriptive Research Method, with gathering data through questionnaire. The sample determined by using stratified random sampling technique. The data analysis using the statistical technique that used positive sign and negative sign on the performance management aspect, employee quality aspect and work motivation aspect.The analysis result indicating that the third condition aspect mentioned still very low, and it has not been fulfilling the employee expectation. From the three aspects that has a critical enough condition is the employee motivation aspect, which still has to get special attention from the leader of The Ministry of Settlement and Regional Infrastructure. The strategy formulation for employee performance improvement, intended to achieve the prime Government Officials Quality status in implementing service to the public in the reformation era and globalization era, with conducting efforts such as correction and improvements to the critical aspects that related with the Government Officers mentioned. In conducting the strategy, which to improve the employee performance, the thing that has to be done by The Ministry of Settlement and Regional Infrastructure at fist time is to rearrangement and improving the motivation of Official Government, in order to generating the working enthusiasm. Here in after conducting the rearrangement and improvement to the condition of performance management and employee quality, so it expected that the Government Official performance improving optimally as a prime State Servant and Society Servant.