Keeping Teachers’ Organizational Commitment High By Considering the Role of Teachers Leadership and Trust

Abstract

The problem that school often faced is how to keep low or zero teachers’ turn over rate meant that their organizational commitment should be maintained. It presumably was brought about where there was no trust anymore and confused teachers leadership. So, that was why this research conducted is to solve the problem, whether teachers’ task performance affected directly or indirectly by leadership and trust. Around 100 senior high school biological teachers used as sample and causal survey applied. Instruments developed to measure organizational commitment (OC), teachers leadership (TL) and trust (T) and data analyzed by path analysis. Research findings showed that both of those exogen factor, teachers’ leadership and trust were found to be significantly and directly affect on teachers’ organizational commitment. Besides, trust was found to be good mediated factor as well. Therefore, these findings implied that in reducing teachers turn over rate in term of teachers organizational commitment would be scientifically, the role of teachers leadership and trust could be taken into account.