Using The Principal’s Leadership Style to Improve Teachers’ Work Motivation and Performance

Cance Melsing

Authors

Cance Melsing Pascasarjana, Universitas PGRI Palembang, Indonesia Author

Keywords:

Leadership Style, Teacher Performancce, Motivation

Abstract

The use of the right leadership style can increase teacher motivation and performance. This article discusses improving teachers' work motivation and performance with the principal's leadership style. Providing motivation to teachers is very important and has a specific purpose. Work motivation is a person's activity that causes the person or others to act well, therefore motivation has an important role. Likewise with teacher performance, teacher performance will improve if the teacher gets motivation from colleagues and superiors. Teacher performance is influenced by several indicators, performance assessments, criteria and several other factors. Leadership styles have several types, namely, 1) authoritarian leadership style, 2) Free (Laissez Faire), 3) Visionary Leadership Style, 4) Democratic Leadership Style, and 5) Transformational leadership style. Each type of leadership style has its own advantages and disadvantages, characteristics and also has different impacts. The characteristics of each leadership style are also very different. If a leader uses the right leadership style, it will increase the work motivation and performance of teachers in the school he leads. Overall, leadership effectiveness determines success.

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