| Abstrakt: |
Based on the problem that the teacher's commitment to the profession is still not as expected, this study aims to find ways to improve teacher commitment to the profession by examining the influence of transformational leadership, self-efficacy, and job satisfaction. The methodologies used are the Path method and Sitorem method. The study population was 1307 Non-Civil Servant, middle school teachers in Cirebon District, Indonesia with a research sample of 136 teachers. The Non-Civil Servant middle school teachers are teachers who are not paid by the government but by the foundation. The results showed that the Teacher's Commitment to the Professionals could be increased through strengthening Transformational Leadership, Self-Efficacy, and Job Satisfaction. The strengthening of variables is carried out by correcting the weak indicators based on Sitorem's analysis, so that the priority order for handling the improvement of indicators is carried out as follows: 1. Strength of self-confidence, and 2. Announcement of self-confidence for Self-Efficacy variables, 3. Salary received, 4 Promotion, and 5. Supervision of Supervisors for the Job Satisfaction variable, 6. The job itself, 7. Surviving in the Organization, and 8. Establishing Professional Values for the Teacher Commitment variable towards the Profession. This main contribution of our research to provide empirical evidence that the Path Analysis and Sitorem Analysis methods are very good to be used to analysed the factors that influence the strengthening of the Teacher's commitment to his professionalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
