The Principal’s Leadership Strategy in Improving Quality: A Study at Aron State Elementary School Pidie Aceh Indonesia
- 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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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Nurhayati Nurhayati AU - Cut Zahri Harun AU - Bahrun Bahrun PY - 2018/10 DA - 2018/10 TI - The Principal’s Leadership Strategy in Improving Quality: A Study at Aron State Elementary School Pidie Aceh Indonesia BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Educational Management and Administration (CoEMA 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 42 EP - 45 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/coema-18.2018.11 DO - 10.2991/coema-18.2018.11 ID - Nurhayati2018/10 ER -