Normative Commitment: The Leverage of Personality, Job Satisfaction, and Work Motivation

Abstract

Normative commitment is needed to prevent a decline in the quality of education. The principal has an important role, providing an example for teachers to increase normative commitment to advance the quality of education. This study aims to examine the influence of personality dimensions, job satisfaction and work motivation on the normative commitment of the principals of the State Vocational School in DKI Jakarta. The technique of data collection in this research is a questionnaire method, which is a distributed question to 63 civil servant teachers samples, including teachers who received additional duties as principals of state vocational high schools in DKI Jakarta. It was a population of 75 teachers. The sample of this study was selected using the Slovin formula and taken randomly simple. Variables in this study were evaluated using correlation and regression analysis. The results show personality had a direct positive influence on normative commitment, job satisfaction and work motivation had too. Furthermore, personality and job satisfaction have a direct positive influence on work motivation, as well as personality has a direct influence on job satisfaction. Therefore, personality, job satisfaction, and work motivation are required to enhance the principals 'obligation in a schools' organization.