The Effect of Principal Academic Supervision, Work Climate and Work Motivation on the Performance of Public Elementary School Teachers in Bumi Makmur District, Tanah Laut Regency

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the relationships between the principal academic supervision, work climate, and work motivation on the performance of public elementary school teachers in Bumi Makmur District, Tanah Laut Regency. A descriptive quantitative method was employed. This research included 123 public elementary school teachers from 13 elementary schools in the Bumi Makmur District. Using proportional random sampling, 109 individuals were sampled. This analysis of the research data employed descriptive statistics and path analysis. The collection of data is performed using an instrument. Path analysis was applied to the research data to determine the direct and indirect relationships between variables, after undertaking normality, homoscedasticity, multicollinearity, and heteroscedasticity tests. The results indicated that the academic supervision of the principal is directly and significantly related to the teacher performance. Work climate is significantly and directly related to the teacher performance. There is a direct and significant relationship between work motivation and teacher performance. Academic supervision by the principal is directly and significantly related to the work climate. Principal academic supervision is significantly and directly related to variables of work motivation. There is an indirect relationship through the work climate between the principal's academic supervision and the performance of elementary school teachers in the Bumi Makmur District of Tanah Laut Regency.