Teachers’ Leadership and Students’ Motivation to Learn English

<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>Teacher leadership is a leadership attitude shown by the teachers involving idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration. This study is conducted to investigate the relationship between teacher leadership and students’ motivation to learn English. By knowing the association between these variables, English teachers will be able to strategize in conducting the learning process in class to motivate their students. If students are motivated in learning English, then their performance and achievement might increase too. The design of the study is correlational. The relationship is determined by correlating scores from two questionnaires given to the students. The result indicated that there is a positive moderate relationship between teacher leadership and students’ motivation in learning English. The correlation coefficient is 0.342. It means that the higher the degree of teachers’ leadership, the higher the students’ motivation. In contrast, when the teachers have low degree of leadership, the students will gradually lose their motivation. In conclusion, the result of this study has shown that there is a significant relation between teachers’ leadership and students’ motivation.</p><strong>Abstrak:</strong> Kepemimpinan seorang guru dalam melakukan pembelajaran di dalam kelas dapat dilihat melalui beberapa hal, yaitu <em>idealized influence</em>, <em>inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, </em>dan<em> individualized consideration</em>. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk menginvestigasi hubungan antara kepemimpinan guru dengan motivasi siswa dalam belajar Bahasa Inggris. Dengan mengetahui hubungan antar dua variabel ini, guru dapat mengatur strategi lebih baik dalam melakukan proses belajar di kelas. Hasil penelitian mengindikasikan adanya hubungan positif yang sedang antara kepemimpinan guru dengan motivasi siswa dalam belajar <strong>b</strong>ahasa Inggris. Koefisien korelasinya adalah 0.342. <strong>Hal i</strong>ni berarti semakin tinggi kualitas kepemimpinan guru, semakin baik pula motivasi siswa dalam mempelajari Bahasa Inggris. Begitu pula jika guru mempunyai kualitas kepemimpinan yang rendah, maka besar kemungkinan bahwa lambat laun siswa akan kehilangan motivasi dalam belajar Bahasa Inggris. Kesimpulannya, kepemimpinan guru mempunyai hubungan yang signifikan dengan motivasi siswa dalam belajar bahasa Inggris.

Leaders’ Individualized Consideration and Employees’ Job Satisfaction

Individualized Consideration is an important factor affecting organizational employees’ job satisfaction. Many studies show that Individualized Consideration of leadership has positive and significant influence on job satisfaction. Based on a literature review and previous work, this study aims to investigate the influence of Individualized Consideration on organizational job satisfaction. The findings of this study provide evidence that Individualized Consideration have significant positive influence on job satisfaction. The study suggests that if organizations heads demonstrate Individualized Consideration, it will be proven, highly effective to achieve employees’ job satisfaction in their organizations.

Proactive Personality as a Predictor of Career Adaptability and Career Growth Potential: A View From Conservation of Resources Theory

In the present study, we offered a new account for the development of career adaptability and the realization of career growth potential based on conservation of resources (COR) theory. Using data collected from 903 university students in China, we examined how and when proactive personality influences students’ career adaptability and career growth potential by introducing emotional exhaustion as a mediator as well as friend support and teacher individualized consideration as boundary conditions. Specifically, the results confirmed a positive effect of proactive personality on career adaptability, with this relationship mediated by emotional exhaustion. In addition, results suggested a positive effect of proactive personality on career growth potential, with this relationship mediated by emotional exhaustion and career adaptability. Moreover, results showed that in-school social support (i.e., friend support and teacher individualized consideration) served as moderators in the relationship between proactive personality and emotional exhaustion, such that the negative effect of proactive personality on emotional exhaustion was strengthened when students received high levels of social support. Theoretical implications of career adaptability research and COR theory and practical implications for promoting adaptability resources and career growth in university are provided.

How coach leadership is related to the coach-athlete relationship in elite sport

The purpose of this study was to explore the association between coach leadership and the coach-athlete relationship. Eighty-one elite athletes ( M = 20.4 years; SD = 3.8; 58% female and 42% male) responded to questionnaires pertaining to their coaches’ leadership behaviours and the quality of their relationship. The overall model for predicting the quality of the coach-athlete relationship according to perceived coach leadership behaviours explained 61% of the variance. Three transformational leadership behaviours were positively associated with the quality of the coach-athlete relationship: individualized consideration, appropriate role-modelling, and fostering acceptance of group goals and teamwork. Based on a gender comparison, men perceived higher levels of leadership pertaining to role-modelling and intellectual stimulation, in addition to higher levels of quality for the coach-athlete relationship. This research emphasizes the importance of engaging in transformational leadership behaviours with regards to associations with perceptions of the coach-athlete relationship in elite sport contexts.

Improving the Innovation Performance for Vietnamese Firm Based on Practices of Idealized Influence and Individualized Consideration: The Mediating Role of Knowledge Sharing

Innovation performance is the fundamental factor for firms to survive and achieve competitive advantage in the context of increasing competitive pressure. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impacts of two key components of transformational leadership (TL) namely idealized influence and individualized consideration on knowledge sharing (KS), as well as their influences on firm’s innovation performance. The paper used Structural Equations Modeling (SEM) to elaborate the relationship among these latent factors through using survey data gathered from 235 participants of 60 medium and small-sized firms in Vietnam. The findings reveal that KS activities of employees play a crucial role in improving firm’s innovation performance, and serve as a mediating role in the effects of TL on innovation performance. Moreover, the findings highlight the impact of individualized consideration on innovation performance in comparison with the impact of idealized influence on innovation performance. In general, the findings of this study have advanced the understanding and brought new initiatives for Vietnamese firms to follow and improve its innovation performance.

Improving Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment: Analysis of the Effects of the Principal Transformational Leadership

This study aimed to measure the effect of dimensions of transformational leadership (i.e., idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration) on organizational commitment of the teachers of four private vocational school in Tangerang which are mediated by job satisfaction. Data collection was done by simple random sampling to 175 population of lecturers. The returned and valid questionnaire results were 131 samples. Data processing was used SEM method with Smart PLS 3.0 software. The results of this study concluded: first, the dimensions of transformational leadership: idealized influence, intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration have positive and significant effect on job satisfaction, except inspirational motivation. Second, the dimensions of transformational leadership: idealized influence, inspirational motivation, and individualized consideration have not significant effect on organizational commitment, except intellectual stimulation. Third, job satisfaction have a positive and significant effect on organizational commitment. Fourth, the dimensions of transformational leadership: idealized influence, intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration have positive and significant effect on organizational commitment through job satisfaction as mediation, but inspirational motivation have not significant effect on organizational commitment through job satisfaction as mediation. This research could pave the way to improve the lecturer readiness in facing the era of education 4.0.

IMPLEMENTASI GAYA KEPEMIMPINAN TRANSFORMASIONAL KEPALA SEKOLAH SD IT

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mendeskripsikan implementasi gaya kepemimpinan transformasional yang ditinjau dari : 1) Perenapan dimensi idealized influence, 2) penerapan dimensi inspirational motivation, 3) penerapan dimensi intelektual stimulation, 4) penerapan dimensi individualized consideration oleh kepala sekolah dalam memimpin SDIT Muhammadiyah Al Kautsar. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan desain pendekatan fenomenologi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa : 1) Kepala sekolah menerapkan dimensi idealized influence ditunjukkan dari integritas mengelola visi dan misi, keteladan dalam menjalankan tugas dan kemampuan dalam menyelesaikan permasalahan, 2) Kepala sekolah menerapkan dimensi inspirational motivation ditunjukkan dari kemampuan dalam menjadi insiprasi bawahan dan kemampuan memberi motivasi bawahan, 3) Kepala sekolah menerapkan dimensi intelektual stimulation ditunjukkan dari kemampuan dalam menerapkan kepemimpinan kolektif dan kemampuan dalam memberikan tindakan nyata yang memicu munculnya ide atau gagasan baru dalam menyelesaikan permasalahan melalui pemberdayaan bawahan, 4) Kepala sekolah menerapkan dimensi individualized consideration ditunjukkan dari perilaku yang bersahabat, saling adanya kepercayaan, saling menghormati dan hubungan yang sangat hangat dalam kerja sama antara pemimpin dengan anggota kelompok dan kemampuan dalam memperhatikan kebutuhan bawahan/pengikut akan pengembangan karir.

The Effect of Transformational Leadership on Administrative Empowerment: A Field Study at Pharmaceutical Manufacturers in Yemen

The study aimed to measure the impact of transformational leadership on administrative empowerment, and identify the level of practicing it at pharmaceutical manufacturers in Yemen. It also aimed to identify the level of administrative empowerment practice in these companies. To achieve the objectives of the study, the descriptive and analytical method was adopted, and a questionnaire was distributed to a sample of 330 participants selected by the complete sensus sampling method. However, only 227 of the questionnaires were valid for analysis. For data analysis, many descriptive and inferential statistical methods were used. Findings revealed that the level of practicing transformational leadership did not reach the expected level, as the mean was just medium. There were differences at the level of practicing the dimensions of transformational leadership; the highest effective difference was the intellectual arousal and the least one was the individualized consideration. Findings also showed that the level of administrative empowerment practice was medium, and the practice level of the dimension of authority delegation was high while participation in decision-making was low. Moreover, there were differences at the level of the impact of the dimensions of transformational leadership on administrative empowerment; the highest effective difference was the ideal effect and the least one was the individualized consideration. The study stressed the need to adopt various dimensions of transformational leadership, at pharmaceutical manufacturers in Yemen, with an emphasis on individualized consideration as this can have a great impact on administrative empowerment. Keywords: administrative empowerment, pharmaceutical manufacturers in Yemen, transformational leadership