The Mediating Effect of Job Satisfaction and Job motivation to Influence School Leadership, Teacher Competence and Experience of Teachers on Performance of Teachers in SMA/SMK in Jayawijaya, Indonesia

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the mediating effect of job satisfaction and job motivation to influence school leadership, teacher competence and experience of teachers on performance of teachers in SMA (regular highschool) / SMK (vocational school) in Jayawijaya. The population that used in this study was overall teachers from private and non-private SMA and SMK (high school) in Jayawijaya. The number of teachers in Jaya Wijaya district is 309 from SMA and 156 from SMK, then in total would be 465 teachers. The samples are 87 teachers, which are 58 SMA (regular high school) teachers, and 29 teachers from SMK (vocational high school). In this study, it tested the effect of school leadership, teacher competence, experience of teachers, to job satisfaction and motivation, as well as its impact on teacher performance in Jayawijaya, with an analysis tool used is Partial Least Square (PLS). The result show: (1) school leaderships and teachers experience have indirect effect on the performance of teachers in SMA (regular high school) and SMK (Vocational School) through the mediation of job satisfaction of teachers in SMA (Regular High School) and SMK (vocational school)  in the district of Jayawijaya. However, teacher competence doesn’t have indirect effect on the performance of teachers in SMA (regular high school) and SMK (vocational school) through the mediation of job satisfaction. (2) Competence of teachers and teacher experience have indirect effect on the performance of teachers in SMA (regular high school) and SMK (vocational school) through mediation job motivation of teachers in SMA (regular high school) and SMK (vocational school) in Jayawijaya. But leadership doesn’t have indirect effect on the performance of teachers through mediation job motivation.

Keywords: Satisfaction, Motivation, Leadership, Competence, Experience, Performance