Turnitin & Koresspndensi: The Effect of Visionary Leadership and Job Rewards on Teacher Professional Commitment

The purpose of this study was to identify and analyze: (1) the effect of visionary leadership on teacher professional commitment, and (2) the effect of job rewards on teacher professional commitment. The research subjects were of teachers State Senior High School in Banda Aceh with a total sample of 252 people taken by means of stratified proportional random sampling, data were analyzed using path analysis after calculating the correlation of all research variables in the form of a matrix. The results of the analysis of the effect of exogenous variables on endogenous variables in each substructure were obtained (1) Visionary leadership has a positive effect on teacher professional commitment of 0.466, (2) Job rewards have a positive effect on teacher professional commitment of 0.589. The research results illustrate that (1) there is a positive direct effect of visionary leadership on teacher professional commitment of 46.6%, and (2) there is a direct positive effect of job rewards on teacher professional commitment of 58.9%.