The Effect of Transformational Leadership and Professional Competence on Teachers’ Performance: The Role of Work Motivation

Supanji ,Reni Herawati ,Siswoyo Haryono

doi:10.7176/ejbm/12-11-02

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of transformational leadership and professional competence, both partially and simultaneously towards professional competence. It was also to reveal the role of work motivation as a mediating variable. The data analysis method used in the study is Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with the Analysis of Moment Structure (AMOS) 22.0 program with the sample size of 255 respondents, taken from a population of 852. The study presented a novelty since most of the study related to competence was in large scopes of competence. This study focused on professional competence in order to get the detailed result. The conclusions are: (1) transformational leadership and professional competence have a significant effect on work motivation, (2) transformational leadership, professional competence, and work motivation have a significant effect on teachers' performance. The following results are: (1) professional competence had the most dominant effect on work motivation, (2) work motivation had the most significant effect on teachers' performance (3) Work motivation is an intervening variable on transformational leadership and professional competence in improving teachers performance. The results of this study illustrated that the professional competencies of each teacher influenced the work motivation of vocational school teachers in Bekasi. Further, the study presented implications that the improvement of teachers' performance at State Vocational Schools in Bekasi could be through enhancing their work motivation due to the significant evidence that the work motivation variable intervened in transformational leadership and also professional competence. Keywords: Transformational Leadership, Professional Competence, Work Motivation, and Performance DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/12-11-02 Publication date: April 30 th 2020

Highlights

Human resource management is a vital step in education management(Beare, Caldwell, & Millikan, 2018)
Education is a significant factor in e building the national character and is very important in shaping the good or bad the human person according to normative measures. , the government is seriously handling the education sector, because, with a sound education system, that the generation of qualified and able to adapt to the life of society, nation, and state (La Fua, Nurlila, & Wekke, 2018; Marini, 2017)
Referring to the research results (Yang, 2014), this study presents a novelty by focusing on the investigation of the effects of transformational leadership in a shared model with professional competence towards teacher performance

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Human resource management is a vital step in education management(Beare, Caldwell, & Millikan, 2018). Education is a significant factor in e building the national character and is very important in shaping the good or bad the human person according to normative measures. The teacher is an essential element in the education process. In the process of education in schools, the teacher holds a dual-task, namely as a teacher and educator. The task is providing and facilitating several instructional materials to students, while, as an educator, the teacher has the responsibility to guide and foster the students to become capable, active, creative, and independent human beings. Teaching and educating are the duties and responsibilities of the teacher as a professional. The quality of the teacher is closely related to professional competence (Hakim, 2015; Kunter, Klusmann, et al, 2013)

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