Correlation between Leadership Behavior, Work Stress and Work Motivation on Teacher Performance of Smpn Balangan Regency

Abstract

Teacher performance is very important because it is the key to the success of the implementation of education or the teaching and learning process in schools. The demands of life are so great on the one hand, while on the other hand the responsibility and moral burden that is borne as a teacher and educator is very large, often resulting in work stress/mental pressure as a result of working on teachers. Not to mention if teachers become targets of criticism for the failure of an educational process experienced by their students. Often teachers end up taking an apathetic attitude towards their profession in the midst of the dilemma of responsibility and socio-economic demands. This study aims to describe the correlation between leadership behavior and work stress through work motivation on teacher performance. The population of this study included 203 teachers with a sample of 135 people. The sampling technique was carried out by proportional random sampling. Analysis This study used descriptive and inferential statistics through SPSS 20. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire. Data was collected using instruments consisting of principal supervision (24 items), work discipline (30 items), work motivation (26 items) and teacher performance (51 items) which have been tested for validity and reliability. The research data were analyzed using path analysis. The results showed that there were (1) leadership behavior and work motivation in the high category, while work stress and teacher performance were in the high category. (2) there is a direct correlation of leadership behavior, work stress, work motivation to teacher performance. (3) there is a correlation between leadership behavior and work stress through work motivation on teacher performance.