The Analysis of Social Teachers’ Performance in the Senior High Schools of Ciamis Regency

Abstract

This research is intended to analyze  the principal’s leadership, school cultures, teachers’ welfare,  achievement motivation and the competence of social teachers at Senior High Schools in Ciamis regency and their effects towards the teachers’ performance.   Population of this research are Social teachers at Senior High Schools in Ciamis regency,  with the number of analysis unit of 121. The data collection technique used is the questionnaires of Likert scale model of five choices and managed with path analysis technique in the assistance of SPSS IBM Mac version 23. Respondents’ perception show that the principal’s leadership, school cultures, achievement motivation, teachers’ competence and teachers’ performance are in the moderate category, while teachers’ welfare is in the high category. The research result shows that: (1) there is a direct positive effect of principal’s leadership, school cultures and teachers’ welfare towards the achievement motivation;  (2) there is a direct positive effect of principal’s leadership, school cultures, teachers’ welfare and achievement motivation towards the teachers’ competence; (3) there is an indirect positive effect of principal’s leadership, school cultures, and teachers’ welfare through the achievement motivation towards the teachers’ performance; (4) there is a direct positive effect of principal’s leadership, school cultures, teachers’ welfare, achievement motivation and teachers’ competence towards the teachers’’ performance; (5) there is an indirect positive impact of principal’s leadership, school cultures, and teachers’ welfare, through the achievement motivation  and teachers’ competence towards the teachers’ performance.The effect of principal’s leadership, school cultures, teachers’ welfare, achievement motivation  and teachers’ performance directly or indirectly provide low effect towards the teachers’ performance. The improvement of teachers’ performance can be conducted through the sustained profession development activity or Kegiatan Pengembangan Keprofesian Berkelanjutan (PKB).

Keywords: principal’s leadership, school cultures, teachers’ welfare, achievement motivation, teachers’ competence, teachers’ performance.