The Effect of Principals’ Competencies on Teachers’ Job Satisfaction and Work Commitment

Yulia Rachmawati; Suyatno Suyatno

doi:10.17275/per.21.21.8.1

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The Effect of Principals’ Competencies on Teachers’ Job Satisfaction and Work Commitment

Abstract

The paper aims to examine the influence of a principal’s managerial competence on teachers’ job satisfaction and work commitment. The study belongs to a quantitative type with a cross-sectional design. The samples are 77 teachers from private junior high schools in Yogyakarta, all of which were selected using a random sampling technique. The data were collected through a questionnaire, which has been tested for validity and reliability. The data were analyzed using PLS-SEM as the samples used were less than a hundred numberwise. The hypothesis testing using PLS-SEM with path coefficient is accepted if the evaluation of the t-statistic is above 1.96 and p-value less than 0.05. The path coefficient revealed several results. First, work commitment significantly influences teachers’ job satisfaction. Second, a principal’s conceptual competency does not considerably affect the teachers’ work commitment and job satisfaction. Third, the principal’s interpersonal competency significantly influences teachers’ work commitment and job satisfaction. Fourth, a principal’s technical competency significantly affects teachers’ work commitment and job satisfaction with respectively. Besides, the hypothesis tested simultaneously to the variables and was evaluated using R-square adjusted value path I resulted in 0.762, which means the conceptual competency, interpersonal competency, and technical competency simultaneously influence job satisfaction up to 76.2%, categorized as substantial (strong). Meanwhile, R-square adjusted path II is 0.363, which means that the three competencies simultaneously influence job satisfaction up to 36.3%, categorized as weak. The findings have important implications for those involved in developing teachers’ professionalism in that improving a principal’s interpersonal and technical competencies will have a positive influence on teachers’ job satisfaction and work commitment.

Keywords

conceptual competency, interpersonal competency, technical competency, work commitment, job satisfaction

Supporting Institution

Universitas Ahmad Dahlan and the Directorate of Research and Community Development of the Ministry of Research and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia

Thanks

The researchers would like to express their greatest gratitude to the Directorate of Research and Community Development of the Ministry of Research and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia for providing the funds in the form of a master’s thesis research grant.

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Yulia Rachmawati This is me
0000-0001-6661-7255
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Suyatno Suyatno ^*
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January 1, 2021

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October 13, 2020

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