The Impact of Transformational Leadership Style and Compensation on Teacher Performance at Madrasah Aliyah

Abstract

Building a motivating environment can be an organization's most significant challenge because a motivated, satisfied, and committed workforce is harder to find and create. It keeps leaders in an organization evaluating, experimenting, and adapting to different people, including their behaviours, attitudes, personalities and cultures, traditions, habits, and experiences. This study aims to determine and analyze the effect of transformational leadership style and compensation on teacher performance through work motivation at a private madrasah Aliyah in Buru Regency. The descriptive and verification method with a quantitative research approach is used—sampling using the purposive sampling technique, with a sample of 41 teachers. Sources of data used in the study are primary data and secondary data. The study's results indicate that transformational leadership influences work motivation and teacher performance. Likewise, compensation directly influences the motivation and performance of Madrasah Aliyah Alhilaal Namlea Buru Regency teachers. The results of the Sobel test calculator calculation show an indirect effect of transformational leadership on teacher performance through work motivation. Likewise, compensation also has an indirect impact on teacher performance through work motivation. So it can be concluded that work motivation can mediate the relationship between balance and teacher performance at Madrasah Aliyah inBuru Regency. The results of this study can also be used for researchers and further researchers as well as parties who need it as a source of reference and valuable information in adding to the reader's insight

Revitalizing Educational Leadership: A Comprehensive Literature Review of Transformational Leadership in Indonesia Academic Settings

“…The research results show that there are 13 variables that are influenced by transformational leadership, namely performance, motivation, job satisfaction, commitment, quality, service quality, welfare, teaching effectiveness, integrity, student achievement, teacher competence, OCB, and decisionmaking. The most widely researched variable is transformational leadership influencing teacher performance (Adriantoni et al, 2023), (Nurabadi et al, 2021), (Azizah & Wahidin, 2022), (Masriah, 2022), (Sehol, 2022), (Melianah et al, 2021), (Ali, 2022) and (Frihastama & Hermanto, 2022).…”

“…Furthermore, four articles were found about transformational leadership influencing motivation, consisting of motivation (Rahmansyah, 2022), work motivation (Sehol, 2022), and achievement motivation (Nazayanti et al, 2019) and (Wulandari et al, 2023). Two articles on transformational leadership influence Job satisfaction among teachers (Tentama et al, 2021) and (Juhji et al, 2022).…”

“…The teacher performance variable is a moderating variable between transformational leadership and student achievement (Nurabadi et al, 2021). The work motivation variable is a moderating variable between transformational leadership and performance (Sehol, 2022). The achievement motivation variable is a moderating variable between transformational leadership and professional commitment (Wulandari et al, 2023).…”