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Graduate School of Management, Universitas Pelita Harapan, Indonesia
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Raffles House Preschool, Indonesia
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Trisakti School of Management, Indonesia
Bernarto227@gmail.com, diebachtiar@yahoo.com, niko.sudibjo@uph.edu,
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of transformational leadership on
perceived organizational support, job satisfaction and life satisfaction, the effect of
perceived organizational support on job satisfaction and life satisfaction, the effect of job
satisfaction on life satisfaction. The for data collection via an online electronic
questionnaire and the respondents are 127 school teachers that determined by snowball
sampling. Data analysis techniques with partial least square-structural equation
modeling (PLS-SEM) approach with the help of SmartPls 3.0 program. The results
showed that transformational leadership had a positive effect on perceived organizational
support, job satisfaction and life satisfaction. Then perceived organizational support has
a positive effect on job satisfaction and life satisfaction. Finally, job satisfaction has a
positive effect on life satisfaction.. This study was conducted because inadequate previous
study that conducted to investigate of transformational leadership on perceived
organizational support, teachers job satisfaction and teachers life satisfaction and could
be adapted and adopted by other countries or in other regions.
Keywords: Transformational Leadership,Life Satisfaction, Job Satisfaction,
Perceived Organizational Support.
1.0 Introduction
Teachers is the most respected profession in the world. Teacher is the key and the most
important factors in school(Usop, Askandar, Langguyuan-Kadtong, and Usop, 2013).
Moreover, teacher is the pivot of any education system and a role who is consciously
imitated by students. However, school teachers are leaving the profession at alarming
rates and turnover is high in many schools. Various reasons account for why teachers
move from one school to the others or even leave the profession. Chambers (2010)
mentioned that their reasons included lack of support and leadership quality of the
leaders, low salary and job satisfaction, and poor commitment.
XYZ School has been running for almost 40 years and faces the same problems of
high number of turnover and low satisfaction and performance of the teachers. In
addition, the school is also facing a serious problem in relation to the teachers’
motivation. Most of them have no motivation to teach and improve their skills, and are
not happy with their work. Teachers with low motivation to teach might find it only as a
job to gain money and with no respect to students, or might consider it as a burden. While
teachers who are dissatisfied with their job will also feel unhappy with their lives and in
the end, it will make them not being able to perform well in teaching (Bachtiar,
Sudibjo,andBernarto, 2018).
3.0Methods
The survey method was applied in this study for data collection using a questionnaire. All
127 XYZ school teachers were used as respondents or censuses. All questionnaire items
for each variable were adapted from Bachtiar et al (2018) and measured by a five-point
There was a total of 27 teachers participated. They had different age group, ranging
from 25-29 years old (15%), 30-39 years old (48%), 40-49 years old (11%) and more than
50 years old (26%). Most of them were full-time teachers (70%), and the rest were part-
timers (30%). Their employment status was various, where 37% of them were permanent
employees, 59% of them were contract employees for more than 1 school year or more,
and the less 4% were contract employees for less than 1 school year. Their length of work
was also various, where 4% of them were in their first year, 7% of them had worked for
1-2 years, 30% of them had work for 3-5 years, and the rest 64% of them had worked for
6-10 years.
4.0Results
4.1 Measurement Model
Validity and reliability tests were done before performing the structural analysis (Hair,
Hult, Ringle, and Sarstedt, 2014). The validity test was done by checking if AVE score
was higher than 0.5. It was done to check discriminate analysis, whether the square root
score was higher than the correlation score of each construct. If the outer loading of each
construct was higher than 0.7, the AVE score was checked. Next, the reliability test was
done by analyzing the composite reliability score which had to be higher than 0.7. The
results of validity and reliability test can be seen in the following Table 1. It shows the
AVE score, outer loadings and composite reliability have met the requirement.
The next validity test performed was a discriminate analysis which analyzed the
Fornell-LarckerCriterium. The AVE square root should be higher than the correlation
values between constructs (Hair et al., 2014). The results of discriminate analysis had met
the requirement and are presented in the following Table 2.
Tabel 2.Fornell-LarckerCriterium
JS LS POS TL
JS 0.847
LS 0.837 0.841
POS 0.736 0.680 0.831
TL 0.744 0.719 0.813 0.878
Note: JS=Job Satisfaction; LS=Life Satisfaction; POS=Perceived Organizational Support
Source: Results of data processing (2018)
Table 3. Evaluation of R2
Endogenous Construct R2
Job Satisfaction 0.604
Life Satisfaction 0.721
Source: Results of data processing (2018)
Collinearity evaluation was done to find out if there was collinearity in the model. Hair
et al. (2014) explained that to find collinearity, counting the VIF of each construct was
needed. If the VIF score was higher than 5, then the model had collinearity.Table 4.shows
that all VIF scores are smaller than 5, which means that this model has no collinearity.
Furthermore, the hypotheses test was not done by performing a significant test (t-test)
because all populations participated as the respondents. Thus, it was called as census. A
hypothesis would be supported empirically if the standardized coefficient was positive,
the same as the direction of the hypothesis. The following Table 5. shows that all
hypotheses are supported.
5.0Discussion
The results of the first, fourth and sixth hypothesis tests, which state that
"transformational leadership has a positive effect on job satisfaction, life satisfaction and
perceived organizational support", are supported. The results are consistent with previous
studies by Amin etal. (2013), Aydin, Uysal and Sarier (2013), Bachtiaret al. (2018), Men
and Stacks (2013), and Tesfaw (2014). It was found that the transformational leadership
had a direct or indirect impact on increasing the perceived organizational support, job
satisfaction and life satisfaction.
Transformational leadership has a positive effect on job satisfaction. Based on the
analysis and processing of data obtained and concluded that transformational leadership
has a positive effect on teacher job satisfaction. Perceived organizational support has a
positive effect on job satisfaction.Based on the analysis and processing of data obtained
and concluded that organizational support has a positive effect on teacher job
satisfaction.Job satisfaction has a positive effect on life satisfaction. Based on the analysis
and processing of data obtained and concluded that job satisfaction has a positive effect
on teacher life satisfaction. Transformational leadership has a positive effect on life
satisfaction, Based on the analysis and processing of data obtained and concluded that
transformational leadership has a positive effect on teacher life satisfaction. Perceived
organizational support has a positive effect on life satisfaction. Based on the analysis and
processing of data obtained and concluded that organizational support has a positive
effect on teacher life satisfaction. Transformational leadership has a positive effect on the
perception of organizational support. Based on the analysis and processing of data
6. Conclusion
The results of this research showed that transformational leadership had a positive
effect on perceived organizational support, job satisfaction and life satisfaction. Then
perceived organizational support has a positive effect on job satisfaction and life
satisfaction. Finally, job satisfaction has a positive effect on life satisfaction.This research
was only conducted at one particular school location with a small population.
Transformational leadership has a positive effect on job satisfaction. Based on the
analysis and processing of data obtained and concluded that transformational leadership
has a positive effect on teacher job satisfaction. Perceived organizational support has a
positive effect on job satisfaction.Based on the analysis and processing of data obtained
and concluded that organizational support has a positive effect on teacher job
satisfaction.Job satisfaction has a positive effect on life satisfaction. Based on the analysis
and processing of data obtained and concluded that job satisfaction has a positive effect
on teacher life satisfaction. Transformational leadership has a positive effect on life
satisfaction, Based on the analysis and processing of data obtained and concluded that
transformational leadership has a positive effect on teacher life satisfaction. Perceived
organizational support has a positive effect on life satisfaction. Based on the analysis and
processing of data obtained and concluded that organizational support has a positive
effect on teacher life satisfaction. Transformational leadership has a positive effect on the
perception of organizational support. Based on the analysis and processing of data
obtained and concluded that transformational leadership has a positive effect on the
perception of organizational support.
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