Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Educational Management and Administration (CoEMA 2018)

The Principal’s Leadership Strategy in Improving Quality: A Study at Aron State Elementary School Pidie Aceh Indonesia

Authors
Nurhayati Nurhayati, Cut Zahri Harun, Bahrun Bahrun
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Nurhayati Nurhayati
Available Online October 2018.
DOI
10.2991/coema-18.2018.11How to use a DOI?
Keywords
strategy, principal leadership, and school quality
Abstract

The purpose of this research was to determine the leadership style, motivation, school organizational culture and obstacles faced by the principal in improving the quality of Aron State Elementary School in Pidie Regency. This research used a descriptive method with a qualitative approach. The research subjects were: school principals, vice principals, KKG chairmen, teachers, supervisors, and school committees. Data collection techniques were conducted by observation, interview, and documentation. Data analysis is done by data reduction, data display, verification and conclusion. The results showed that: (1) The leadership style applied is more likely to be democratic leadership styles, such as: not imposing a will, looking at subordinates as partners, building cooperation as a work team, giving trust to subordinates, accepting criticism, and giving freedom to creativity to subordinates; (2) Motivation is given through coaching and training programs, creating a comfortable school environment and environment, giving reward and punishment; (3) The school organizational culture that is applied is the midnight prayer activities, reading books, 5S programs, PHBI activities, monday ceremonies, reading prayers when starting and after learning, memorizing juz 30, giving examples, slogans and symbols in the environment school; and (4) The obstacles faced are the low motivation of teachers in improving their competence, there are still teachers who are less disciplined in carrying out their duties, as well as the limited facilities and infrastructure that support the learning process.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Educational Management and Administration (CoEMA 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
October 2018
ISBN
10.2991/coema-18.2018.11
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/coema-18.2018.11How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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