The Influence of Effective Leadership and Organizational Trust to Teacher’s Work Motivation and Organizational Commitment

Diah Pranitasari

doi:10.24856/mem.v35i1.1257

Abstract

<p>This study aims to determine how the influence of organizational leadership and organizational effectiveness on work motivation and organizational commitment of teachers. This research was conducted at a private high school in Rawamangun Village, Pulo Gadung Subdistrict, East Jakarta. In this study using a saturated sample technique that is the entire population used as a sample, namely 115 respondents. The Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) method was chosen as a statistical analysis technique. The results showed that the effectiveness of leadership and organizational trust had a direct positive effect on work motivation. The effectiveness of organizational leadership and trust has a direct positive effect on organizational commitment. Leadership effectiveness has a direct positive effect on organizational trust and work motivation has a direct positive effect on organizational commitment. The output of this research is that it can provide input for the school in determining policies specifically in determining the position requirements or the recruitment of school principals so that it is expected to increase the confidence, work motivation and commitment of teachers in school organizations.</p>

Highlights

Improving the quality of education is a major factor that determines the success of national development
The quality of education means that education graduates have the appropriate abilities, so they can make a high contribution to development
In the teaching and learning process, the teacher plays an important role, the teacher is the creator of the teaching and learning process, meaning that a teacher must be able to develop a free atmosphere for students to study what is interesting and able to express their ideas and creativity within the limits of the norms that are consistently enforced

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Introduction

Improving the quality of education is a major factor that determines the success of national development. Teachers will be able to provide good educational services. Teachers who have a high level of commitment, marked by the attention to students who are quite high, the time and energy expended to carry out their duties, and a lot of work for the interests of others (Aslil, 2012). The level of organizational commitment of teachers is influenced by many factors both from themselves (internal) and from the work environment (external). For example, work motivation, awareness that work done as a religious service that will provide benefits to others and himself, while those from outside, such as career development provided career counseling, career mentoring and skills evaluation (Suparjo, 2019), the work atmosphere or organizational culture in educational institutions, the leadership of school principals or administrators of foundations, completeness of facilities and infrastructure, material and non material welfare levels, sociocultural surrounding communities and so on (Armstrong and Taylor, 2014)

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