Abstract

The purpose of this research is to describe the leadership style of Junior High School. This research focused on the leadership style of the headmaster, communication with the teachers, employees and the improved teachers’ performance. This research was conducted at Junior High School and used qualitative data collection method with one headmaster of junior high school and 10 teachers. This research used observation, interview and documentation study. The result shows that the headmaster of Junior High School had done the leadership duty very well; by used democratic and transformational style, and authoritarian if needed. The subject always tried to improve teachers’ maximum performance, communicated efficiently and interactively. Then, there are some major role in the school’s improvement and achievements, either academic or non academic. It became the proof that there is a relationship between maximum teacher performance and student achievement at Junior High School. From this research results, there were suggested that headmaster need to maintain and improve the school’s quality.

Highlights

  • Educational institution is an organization that consists of teachers, students, administrative staffs and school leaderselements, as well associety elements,or “school committee.” Each of these elements has its own duties and functions as well as the responsibilities it carries.School is a very complex and unique institution

  • This research used qualitative or naturalistic research method. The selection of this method was based on the consideration that this study aimed to describe the leadership style applied by the headmaster in mobilizing teachers and stakeholders in State Junior High School 2 Sungai Penuh City, as well as to find the underlying meaning or value that influenced the characteristics of the subject, because every human behavior is based on a certain value

  • Interview and documentation study, it can be concluded that the headmaster of State Junior High School 2 Sungai Penuh City used 3 leadership styles, i.e.democratic, transformational, and authoritarian leadership style

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Introduction

Educational institution is an organization that consists of teachers, students, administrative staffs and school leaderselements, as well associety elements,or “school committee.” Each of these elements has its own duties and functions as well as the responsibilities it carries.School is a very complex and unique institution. Educational institution is an organization that consists of teachers, students, administrative staffs and school leaderselements, as well associety elements,or “school committee.”. Each of these elements has its own duties and functions as well as the responsibilities it carries. School is a very complex and unique institution. It is complex because the school is an organization that has various interconnected dimensions, and they influence each other. It is unique becauseithas features that are not owned by other organizations. Because of its complex and unique nature, the school is an organization that needs high level of coordination. The success of the school is the success of the headmaster

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