PENGARUH ORIENTASI KERJA TERHADAP KINERJA GURU SMA XAVERIUS 1 PALEMBANG

Abstract

This study was conducted to determine the impact of work orientation on the job performance of teachers in SMA Xaverius 1 Palembang. Work orientation is rarely used to describe the job performance so that’s why th is variable is examined. Teachers at SMA Xaverius 1 Palembang were used as sample s in this study because SMA Xaverius 1 Palembang is one of the high-quality and famous Senior High School s. According to Bellah et al (1985) and Wrzesniewski et al (1997), work orientation is divided into three, the y are: jobs, careers, and callings. Each work orientation has its own characteristics that demonstrate job performance. Work orientation determined by Work Orientation questionnaire taken from Wrzesniewski (1997). Job performance determined by Job Performance questionnaire. Based on the data, it is known that from 68 teachers were used as samples for this study, there were 43 male teachers and 25 female teachers. In terms of age, it is known that 14 teachers (20.59%) aged 40 years. It was found that from 68 teachers, 3 (4.41%) teachers view they work as a jobs, 22 (32.35%) teachers view the ir work as a careers, and 43 (63.24%) teachers view they work as a callings. This study shows that the work orientation affect the job performance negatively.Job performance from jobs orientation are at the lowest level, job performance from callings orientation are at the highest level, and job performance from careers orientation is between jobs orientation and callings orientation. For further research, it is interesting to study from the other job and expanding the number of respondents so that the results can be generalized.