The Influence of The School Principal’s Transformational Leadership Style on the Teacher’s Performance with Job Satisfaction as A Mediator Variable

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to find out an effect of the transformational leadership of school principals on the teacher’s performance mediated by teacher’s job satisfaction. The research subjects were a teachers in a sub-district in East Java. The research was conducted using quantitative methods with SPSS software, Hayess Process v2, Microsoft Office Excel as analysis tools. The number of samples obtained in this study were 112 people. Data collection was carried out using a Google form in filling out an online survey. The data analysis method used is the assumption test, R-square, Bootstrapping, and Specific total-direct-indirect effects. The results of this study indicate that the principal’s transformational leadership does not directly affect teacher performance, but there needs to be a mediator variable in the form of job satisfaction. And job satisfaction is able to mediate the influence relationship between the transformational leadership of school principals and the teacher’s performance in one of the sub-districts in East Java.