The Correlation between Principals’ Managerial Competence, Academic Supervision Competence, Entrepreneurial Competence, and Teachers’ Motivation for Achievement throughout State Vocational High Schools

Abstract

This present study aimed to identify the correlation between principals’ managerial competences, academic supervision competence, entrepreneurial competencies, and teachers’ motivation for achievement throughout state vocational high schools in the city of Gorontalo. It relied on a quantitative method with a correlational technique and collected the data from a questionnaire using the Likert scale. The results revealed that principals’ managerial competence and teachers’ motivation for achievement had a positive and significant correlation with a correlation coefficient of 0.376 (37.6%); the correlation between principals’ academic supervision competence and teachers’ motivation for achievement was positive and significant with the correlation coefficient of 0.459 (45.9%); the correlation between principals’ entrepreneurial competence and teachers’ motivation for achievement was positive and significant with the correlation coefficient of 0.312 (31.2%); principals’ managerial, academic supervision, and entrepreneurial competencies and teachers’ motivation for achievement reached a positive and significant correlation with the correlation coefficient of 0.546 (54.6%).