The effects of digital transformational leadership, work environment and motivation on reinforc-ing job satisfaction: Evidence from vocational schools

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of job satisfaction, motivation, Digital Transformational Leadership, work on jobs and teachers' performance of vocational schools. The study uses quantitative methods to test and prove the hypotheses made through various analyses and data processing. The research hypothesis testing was carried out by using the Structural Equation Model (SEM) approach based on Partial Least Square (PLS). The population used in this study is vocational schools’ teachers in Pati Central Java, Indonesia. The number of respondents in this study is 110 respondents of vocational teachers who have worked at least 1 years in their schools and data obtained from the distribution of online questionnaires with snowball sampling method. Based on the results of hypothesis testing data processing using SmartPLS software, the results obtained that job satisfaction had a positive and significant effect on teachers' performance of vocational schools, motivation had a positive and significant effect on job satisfaction of vocational schools, motivation had a positive and significant effect on teachers' performance of vocational schools. Digital Transformational Leadership also had a positive and significant effect on job satisfaction of vocational schools. Digital Transformational Leadership had a positive and significant effect on teachers' performance of vocational schools, work environment had a positive and not significant effect on job satisfaction of vocational schools, work environment had a positive and significant effect on teachers' performance of vocational schools. The novelty of this research is the relationship model of the role of digital transformational leadership, work environment, motivation on job satisfaction and teachers’ performance of vocational schools.