The Effect of Personality Value Practice of Principals toward Attitude, Discipline, Qualities and Communications of Work

Muhammad Asri (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
Lokman Bin Mohd Tahir (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)

Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn)
Vol 9, No 1: February 2015

This study aims to identify the effect of personality value practice of principals toward work attitude, work discipline, work quality and work communication of teachers in senior high schools such as public senior high schools (SMA), vocational senior high schools (SMK), religion senior high schools (MAN) in Makassar city, South Sulawesi province of Indonesia. The sample consisted of 295 teachers. It used random sampling method. The study used a questionnaire to collect data. Data were analyzed by the statistical inference of linear regression to test the hypotheses. Cronbach's alpha of the questionnaire is 0.879. The results showed a strong effect of personality values of principals toward work attitude, work quality and work communication of teachers at schools. While, personality value of principals have moderate influence on teachers’ work discipline.