Analisis Pengaruh Tunjangan Sertifikasi, Pendidikan dan Pelatihan Serta Kepemimpinan Kepala Sekolah Terhadap Kepuasan Kerja dan Dampaknya Terhadap Kinerja Guru SMP Negeri Sekecamatan Meureubo Kabupaten Aceh Barat

Abstract

Teachers' performance determines the quality of educational system. Education will be qualified when teachers are referred to the organized vision, mission, purpose, and goal in order to respond to various changes by generating all potential resources in educational institution. Teachers' work satisfaction is one of the important aspects which have to he heeded by management in order to increase teachers' quality of performance. When work satif,faction is fulfilled, teachers will tend to /-,ave high morale in doing their job. Some factors which directly influence teachers' performance are certification allowance, education and training, principals' leadership, and teachers' work satiefaction. The objective of this research was to find out and to analyze the influence of cert{fication allowance, education and training, and principals' leadership on work satisfaction and its effect on teachers' performance at public junior high schools in Meureubo Subdistrict, West Aceh Regency. The research used descriptive explanatory quantitative method which was aimed to measure the correlation between two or more variables. The data were gathered by conducting interviews, questionnaires, and documentary study. The population was 39 teachers as the government employees at all public junior high schools in Meureubo Subdistrict who had received certification allowance, and all of them were used as the samples, taken by using census sampling technique. The gathered data were analyzed by using interval scale, path analysis, and residual test for intervening variable.The result of the research showed that, partially, certification allowance had positive and signtficant influence on teachers' work satisfaction, education and training had positive and significant in influence on teachers' work satiefaction, and principals' leadership had positive and significant influence on teachers' work satiefaction. Partially, certffication allowance had positive and significant influence on teachers ' performance, education and training had positive and significant influence on teachers ' perfrmnance, principals' leadership had positive and significant influence on teachers' performance, work satiefaction had positive and significant influence on teachers' performance, certification allowance had indirectly insignificant influence on teachers' peiformance through work satisfaction as intervening variable, education and training had indirectly positive and significant influence on teachers' performance through work satiefaction as intervening variable, and principals' leadership had indirectly positive and sign(ficant influence on teachers 'performance through work satiefaction as intervening variable.