Factors Affecting Performance of Senior High School Teachers in Banda Aceh City: will the Job Satisfaction as a Mediation?

Author: Aisarah Silma, Nasir and Hafasnuddin, Indonesia

Abstract: This study is to find out Factors Affecting Performance of Senior High School Teachers in Banda Aceh City, Province Of Aceh, Indonesia. The identified variables are work environment, work culture, compensation, job satisfaction, and teacher performance. The study is conducted on 167 teachers at senior high schools in Banda Aceh city as the respondents. The result shows that work environment, work culture and compensation have a simultaneous influence on job satisfaction, work environment, work culture and compensation and teacher job satisfaction have a simultaneous influence teacher performance, work environment variable has a significant influence on teacher job satisfaction, work culture has a significant effect on teacher job satisfaction, compensation has a significant influence on teacher job satisfaction, work environment does not have an influence on teacher performance, work culture has a significant influence on teacher performance, compensation does not influence teacher performance, and the mediation variable of job satisfaction cannot provide a significant influence among work environment and teacher performance, work culture and teacher performance, and compensation with teacher performance. These all findings show tha figures of the variables and this contribute to the realm of science in updating the causality theories. This model also can be a reference for the practical leaders to make the policy regarding the variables, especially for the leaders related in this research. The novelty resides in the intergation of the previous causality model and the new object, while the limitation lies in the scope and number of variables.

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