Education Management from Indonesia: The Political Influence of Regional Heads

This article aims to describe the influence of servant and transformational leadership on teacher work productivity and the role of mediating conflict resolution. There is a lot of research on leadership but not much research on how leadership handles conflict. Several research studies have investigated how leaders respond to conflict and the most common conflict management. However, no research is available to determine public preferences for conflict resolution options. The application of transformational leadership is known for its toughness and has been widely discussed. However, there is a phenomenon where school principals experience a decline and schools experience many problems. One of the factors inhibiting school progress is conflict. The author presents how to manage a school or organization in conflict settings by offering a servant leadership style. These matters are discussed in this article. This study used a quantitative survey design with 300 high school teachers as respondents to rate the leadership of school principals from 15 districts in Lampung Province. The results of Amos 23 calculations state that servant leadership has a positive effect on handling conflict (87.5%) and on teacher’s work productivity (37, 4%), while transformational leadership has a positive effect on handling conflict (8.7%) and negative effect on teacher work productivity (-68.8%). The research concludes that (1) servant leadership is a good predictor of teacher work productivity and a solution for conflict resolution in schools; (2) when there is conflict, transformational leadership is not a solution; (3) conflict handling is directly proportional to teacher work productivity; and (4) conflict handling becomes a good mediator for servant leadership and transformational leadership for teacher work productivity.

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Does Transformational Leadership Still Run Effectively in A Conflict Setting?

Tusianah

Sudjarwo

Sutarsyah

et al. 2023

Wseas Transactions on Systems

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Negative Effect of Local Politics on Multifactor Leadership of Junior High School Principals: Empirical Facts from Indonesia

Ridwan

Sudjarwo

Hariri

2023

Wseas Transactions on Business and Economics

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This research focuses on investigating and examining the influence of local politics on the multifactor leadership of junior high school principals. The method used is a quantitative survey, with the unit of analysis being principals and teachers as respondents from 15 districts (regencies and cities) in Lampung Province. The data collection instrument used was the standardized multifactor leadership questionnaire in the Indonesian version resulting from the translation from English by an expert in the subject and was then discussed in the Forum Group Discussion to get good readability items. The questionnaire was completed by 393 teachers as respondents in 15 districts. The collected data were examined using the SEM Amos Version 22. The results show that the score of local political influence on multifactor leadership is -0,333, transformational is -1,877, transactional is -2,061, and laissez-faire is -,333. The authors conclude that local politics negatively affects all latent variables and all dimensions of multifactor leadership. This research contributes to human resource management and leadership in maintaining and developing and mainstreaming effective management and leadership practices which in this case is multifactor leadership by reducing a disturbing factor: anxiety.

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Education Management from Indonesia: The Political Influence of Regional Heads

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Does Transformational Leadership Still Run Effectively in A Conflict Setting?

Does Transformational Leadership Still Run Effectively in A Conflict Setting?

Negative Effect of Local Politics on Multifactor Leadership of Junior High School Principals: Empirical Facts from Indonesia

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