Pengaruh perilaku kepemimpinan dan kemampuan manajerial kepala sekolah terhadap motivasi dan kinerja guru

This study aims to find a causal relationship model, with a test, whether there is “a direct influence of positive behavior and leadership skills of principals managerial of work motivation and performance of teachers”. The approach is quantitative, with a kind of ex post facto, survey methods of inferential, with lines of research design. Thus, this study is a causal explorative correlation studies. The results of this study were: (1) there is no direct influence positively the behavior of school leadership on teacher performance, (2) there is a positive direct influence managerial skills of principals on teacher performance, (3) there is a positive direct influence on teachers’ motivation to work teacher performance, (4) there is a direct influence positively the behavior of school leadership on teachers work motivation, (5) there is a positive direct influence of principal managerial skills to teachers’ work motivation, (6) the behavior of school leadership, managerial skills of school principals, and motivation of teachers working together in a positive effect on the performance of teachers, (7) each behavioral leadership and managerial skills of school principals indirectly affect the performance of teachers through teachers work motivation. Limited to this study, further studies are needed based pathway analysis. In accordance with the explorative nature, studies provide further pathways for the development of estuarine science with quantitative approach with a strong impression during this academic “verification minded”.