The Influence of Quality of Life on the Teachers’ Performance in the

Junior High School 1 in Labuhan, Deli Serdang Regency

Mesiono, Syafaruddin, Mardianto, Abdillah, Siti Halimah

Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera Utara

Keyword: Quality of life, teachers’ performance.

Abstract: Teacher performance is the ability of teachers in various skills such as guiding, assessing, using media,

communicating with students, teaching and classroom administration. This study aims to determine the

significant effect of Quality of Life on teachers performance of Junior High School (SMP Negeri 1)

Labuhan, Deli Serdang Regency. Hypothesis proposed: there is a significant influence of quality of life on

Teacher Performance. The population of this study is all teachers of SMP Negeri 1 which consist of 30

teachers. Sample was taken by using census sample where all population become as sample. Validity and

reliability was applied for the data. The data were analyzed by using path analysis by using Lisrel Program.

The data analysis showed that the influence of quality of life is very significant on teachers’ performance.

This means that the high level of teacher performance is strongly influenced by the qualit of life. So the

better and higher qualit of life, the better and higher the performance of teachers SMP Negeri 1 Labuhan

Deli Deli Serdang District.

1 INTRODUCTION

(Moully, 1977) states that a teacher must have three

abilities: to direct and motivate students, to provide a

learning experience and develop a personality

thoroughly. According to the Directorate General of

Primary and Secondary Education and the

Directorate General of Higher Education, a teacher

in performing his duties must master 10 (ten) basic

competencies, namely: (1) mastering materials, (2)

managing the teaching and learning process, (3)

managing classes (4) using the media/ learning

resources, (5) mastering the educational foundation,

(6) managing the teaching and learning interaction,

(7) assessing the child's achievement for the teaching

process, (8) recognizing the function and program of

guidance and counseling services, (9) and organizing

school administration, and (10) understanding

principles and interpreting educational research for

teaching purposes. In fact, based on preliminary

research data, it shows that teachers do not have that

ability yet.

In learning activities, ideally a teacher should

have the abilities as above, so that their performance

becomes qualified, the sustainabilityof the quality of

education will be even better. However, empirical

facts through preliminary studies at SMP Negeri 1

Labuhan Deli indicate that these abilities have not

been fully owned by the teachers. Still found low

teacher performance. This is indicated by the

presence of teachers who act only as teachers,

renderers who have not played the role of classroom

managers. The process of teaching and learning

activities observed by researchers varies, some are

effective and some are lacking, in fact there are none

at all. These conditions appear in different teaching

and learning situations, the teacher has not used the

available teaching time, there are still teachers who

arrive late, start the lesson not on time, end the

lesson before the expiration of time, less concerned

with the condition of the students, rarely use

interactive media, less creating cooperation among

teachers. There are also teachers who have never

been involved in an education and training so that

teachers experience or feel less satisfied and

stagnant in the development of professionalism

skills. This condition has an impact on the teacher's

personality pressure so it is difficult to develop a

positive pattern of thinking in the education process.

Empirical facts above, cannot be left alone,

necessitated a serious attention and improvement

efforts from the government through in-service

education such as education and training. However,

Mesiono, ., Syafaruddin, ., Mardianto, ., Abdillah, . and Halimah, S.

The Inﬂuence of Quality of Life on the Teachers’ Performance in the Junior High School 1 in Labuhan, Deli Serdang Regency.

DOI: 10.5220/0008889004590463

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these efforts have not shown any significant change

in teacher performance improvement. For that must

be known and understood what factors are very

decisive or affect the performance of the teacher.

According Colquit (2009) the factors that affect the

performance of one of them is the quality of

life.These factors that influence performance are

described by Colquit in the model as follows:

Figure : 1.Integratif Model of Organization

BehaviorColquitt, Lepine, Wesson,Organizational

Behavior, Mc Graw Hill 2009, p. 8.

The model above informs that performance is

influenced by many factors. Ideally these factors can

improve work ability or teacher

performance.However, in reality there still shows

weaknesses which indicate that it is less relevant to

the reality in Labuhan Deli 1 Public Middle School.

There are still teachers who are less concerned or

less participating in school events or education, lack

of knowledge and mastery about learning strategies,

lack of maintaining the authority of educators, lack

of religious activities, lack of understanding of

vision and mission and goals of education and

teaching and not caring about negative motivation

from the leadership, there are also teachers who have

workloads while the rewards are low. While there

are teachers whose workload is low but their desires

are more fulfilled. Another phenomenon also occurs

that there are still teachers who do not feel

satisfaction in carrying out their duties, such as low

quality of work, lack of discipline in carrying out

teaching, often late coming to school, less attention

to students who are problematic, seeking activity

elsewhere, being apathetic, and lacking initiative to

innovate in the teaching and learning process.

Such conditions greatly affect teacher

performance and ultimately will lead to the quality

of education. How can the quality of education be

good if this condition is allowed to continue?

Therefore such facts cannot be tolerated because

these things will be able to create obstacles in efforts

to improve the quality of education so that the

quality of our education is decreases.

Based on the above explanation, it is illustrated

that the performance of teachers in Labuhan Deli 1

Public Middle School needs attention to improve the

quality of education. Efforts to improve teacher

performance have been made, but efforts to examine

the factors that caused the decline in teacher

performance have been neglected. One reason for

this lack of attention is because of the lack of

empirical data about how many of these factors

contribute to teacher performance.

This research has not many been done yet.

Therefore, the researcher is interested to study more

deeply by doing research on "The Influence Of

Quality Of Life on The Performance Of Teachers Of

SMP Negeri 1 Labuhan Deli Serdang District". The

purpose of this study is to determine: Significant

influence between quality of life on Teacher

Performance of SMP Negeri 1 Labuhan Deli

Serdang District.

2 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

2.1 The Performance of Teachers

According (Colquit, 2009) Job performance is

formally defined as the value of the set of employee

behaviors that contribute, either positively or

negatively, to organizational goal

accomplishment.Performance is likely to be high

when (a) challenging goals have been set, (b) the

moderators (ability, goal commitment,feedback, and

task complexity) are present, and (c) the mediators

(direction, effort, persistence, and task strategy) are

operating. (Slocum, 2009)

Performance is all of these. It’s the end result

ofan activity. And whether that activity is hours of

intense practice before a concert or race or whether

it’s carrying outjob responsibilities as efficiently and

effectively as possible,performance is what results

from that activity. According Benton

(1974),performance act of doing is required by a

contract.

Organizational

Culture

Organizational

Structure

Leadeship:

Styles &

Behavio

Leadeship:

Power & Influence

Teams:

Processes

Teams:

Characteristics

Personality &

Cultural Values

Ability

Job

Satisfaction

Stress

Motivation

Trust, Justice, &

Ethics

Learning &

Decision Making

Job

Performance

Organizational

Commitment

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According (Handoko, 1987), Performance is a

value that results from the ability to carry out tasks

assigned to the executor, due to the consequences of

the employee agreement.With different editors,

(Wahjosumijo, 2001) suggests the notion of

Performance or Appearance is the performance of

work contributed by a person or group of people in

supporting the achievement of organizational goals.

Gibson, et all (1996) mentioning that individual

performance is the basis for the organization,

organizational performance depends on individual

performance, motivation and ability to interact

determine performance, group behavior and

interpersonal influence also gives strength to

organizational performance.

More broadly stated by(Sudjana, 1989) define

the performance with "The ability of teachers in

various teaching skills, guiding, evaluating, using

teaching aids, associating or communicating with

students, skills in preparing teaching / planning,

classroom administration skills, and others.

WhileRuki (2002) revealed that this performance

aims to improve work and personal achievements by

giving them feedback about their achievements.

Based on several definitions the experts above

can be concluded that, Performance is the

achievement or ability of a person in carrying out the

work or the results of his work. When associated

with the teacher performance is the work

performance or the ability of a teacher to carry out

the task of achieving organizational goals or

performance, the ability to carry out tasks, which

can improve the achievement of organizational goals

in this case is at school.

High performance needs to be possessed by the

teacher, because the performance will be the glue

and the driving force for someone to do the job. In

this case, Dhakidae (1978) argues that

"performance" will color our behavior in work and

appear when we carry out their respective roles. This

behavior is the creativity of work that is actualized

by the teacher and with it will have an impact on

performance. The higher the creativity, the higher

their performance will be.

Sahertian (1994) states that "people who do work

with high creativity will have better performance

compared to people who have low levels of

creativity." Bafadal (1992)states that the assessment

of teacher performance basically looks at whether

there is an increase in the quality of teacher

performance in planning and assessing the teaching-

learning process as a result of its implementation as

a teacher. Therefore,Arikunto (1990) states that the

teacher is a manager in a special learning

environment. They have the right and responsibility

in compiling the learning process, planning,

directing, and organizing all student activities.

Teacher performance can be seen from ten

teacher competencies or competencies expressed by

Sardiman (1992), as: 1) mastering the material, 2)

managing the teaching and learning program, 3)

managing the class, 4) using the media/ sources, 5)

mastering the educational foundation 6) managing

the teaching and learning interactions, 7) assessing

student achievement for teaching purposes, 8)

recognizing functions and guidance and counseling

service programs in schools, 9) knowing and

administering school administration, and 10)

understanding the principles and interpret the results

of educational research for teaching needs.

other than that, Usman (1995) also stated that the

teacher's performance was seen from ten abilities or

competencies, namely: 1) developing personality, 2)

mastering the educational foundation, 3) mastering

teaching materials, 4) developing teaching programs,

5) implementing teaching programs, 6) assessing

results and processes teaching and learning that has

been carried out, 7) implementing a guidance

program, 8) organizing school administration, 9)

interacting with colleagues and the community, and

10) conducting simple research for teaching needs.

The three opinions that state the teacher's

abilities or competencies measured as performance

or performance, it is clear that there are no

fundamental differences in terms of the

implementation or implementation of tasks as a

profession for each teacher.

2.2 Quality of Life

According Bernardin and russel (1993:520)Quality

of Work Life (QWL) is the degree to which

individuals are able to satisfy their important

personal need (e.g. need for independent) while

employed by the firm. Defined QWL as "a process

by which an organization responds to employee

needs by developing mechanisms to allow them to

share fully in making the decisions that design their

lives at work" . While Gibson (2009;368) said that

Quality of Work Life Is now widely used to refer to

”a philosophy of management that enhances the

dignity of all workers, introduces changes in an

organization’s cultural and improves the physical

and emotional all-being of employees.

Wheter and davis, (1996:502) Quality of work

life is how workers feel their role in each

organization. Role here is interpreted as part of a

systematic way in which employees participate in

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each decision making involving attitudinal issues

and related to their work, activities and organization,

so that the role is able to give a sense of

responsibility and sense of belonging to each job

which arises from mutual agreement and decisions.

3 METHOD

The population of this study is all teachers of SMP

Negeri 1 Labuhan Deli in Deli Serdang District,

amounting to 30 people. While Sampling is done by

using Saturation Sampling technique (Census)

According Sugiono (1993) saturated sampling is a

technique of determining the sample when all

members of the population used as a sample. This is

often done when the population is relatively small,

less than 30 people. Based on the sampling

technique,the population of 30 teachers of SMP

Negeri 1 Labuhan Deli was taken as sample of

research.

Prior to the data collection, first experimental

test instrument. The data collection of this research

is done by using the questions that are contained in

the questionnaire instrument and observation.Data

analysis techniques used are descriptive and

inferential statistical techniques. The analysis used is

path analysis with LISREL program. In LISREL, the

path coefficient testing is done through t test statistic

while the model conformity test is performed by the

test criteria: If the P-value of chi-square statistic is

<0.05, the value RMESA>0.80.

4 FINDINGS

Based on the results of data analysis obtained

information as follows: There is Influence between

quality of life to Performance Teachers of 0.35, the

value of t-count coefficient of 8.32 at the level of

significance Alpha 0.05 t-table value of 1.98. Based

on the findings of the analysis, quality of life

significantly influences Teacher Performance. This

means that the quality of life owned by the teacher is

able to support the improvement of teacher

performance, so the better and higher the quality of

life the better and higher the performance of

teachers.

5 DISCUSSION

Analysis of data showing the significance of the

influence of quality of life on the performance of

teachers manifested because of the satisfaction of the

needs of the teachers. As noted by experts such as

Bernardin and russel (1993: 520), Quality of Work

Life (QWL) is implied by the firm. QWL defined as

"a process by which an organization responds to

employee needs by developing mechanisms to allow

them to share fully in making the decisions that

design their lives at work". While the Gibson (2009;

368) states that the physical and emotional all-being

of employees is the philosophy of management. In

addition Quality of Life is able to make changes in

organizational culture and improve the physical and

emotional employees. So naturally if the quality of

life is built in monumental and sustainability affect

the performance of the teacher.

The quality of life condition can motivate the

teachers to improve their performance by realizing

their work ability in: 1) mastering the material, 2)

managing the teaching and learning program, 3)

managing the class, 4) using the media / source, 5)

mastering the educational base 6) managing the

interaction teaching, 7) assessing student

achievement for teaching purposes, 8) recognizing

the function and program of guidance and

counseling services at school, 9) recognizing and

organizing school administration, and 10)

understanding principles and interpreting

educational research results for teaching purposes. In

addition, high performance teachers need to have,

because the performance will be able to be adhesive

and propulsion for someone in carrying out the

work. Performance intensity will color our behavior

or behavior in carrying out duties and

responsibilities. In doing the work required a high

creativity. Because quality performance requires

work creativity supported by the quality of life of

teachers will have an impact on the performance of

teachers who are more qualified. Therefore, it needs

to be paid serious attention to the quality of life of

teachers, so that the performance of the teacher is

more qualified. So the higher the quality of life of

teachers has, the higher the performance of teachers

will be.

6 CONCLUSIONS

Based on the results of hypothesis analysis can be

concluded that there is a significant influence

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between quality of life on teacher performance can

be accepted. This means that the high level of

teacher performance is strongly influenced by the

quality of life. So the better and higher quality of life

has, the better and higher the performance of

teachers SMP Negeri 1 Labuhan Deli Serdang

District will be.

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