KONTRIBUSI GAYA KEPEMIMPINAN DEMOKRATIS KEPALA SEKOLAH

Abstract

Abstract: This research aims at knowing: (1) headmasters democratic leadership toward school success, (2) teachers professional competence toward School Success, and (3) both headmasters democratic leadership and teachers professional competence toward School Success. The subjects of the research were 130 teachers taken from the total population of 197 Muhammadiyah junior high school in Surakarta.The samples were taken by means of the proportional random sampling technique.All the data were collected by means of questioners and the collected data were analized using the multi linier regression analysis technique with the help of the SPSS 10. The result of the research shows that firstly there is a significant contribution of democratic headmasters leadership toward School Success. This can be seen from the finding that t0 4.963 is higher than the t table 1.655. Secondly, there is a significant contribution of Teachers Professional Competence toward School Success, and this can be seen from the finding that the t0 6.006 is higher than the t table 1.655. Thirdly, there is a significant contribution of both democratic headmasters leadership and teachers professional competence toward school success, and this can be seen from the finding that the f0 48.675 is higher than the table f table 3.05. In addition, the contribution of variable democratic headmasters leadership to school success is 11 % and the contribution of teachers professional competence to school success is 32.4 %. This research comes to the conclusion that the democratic style of headmasters leadership and teacher professional competence give significant contribution toward school success.This finding implies that the more democratic the style of the leadership of the headmaster of a school is and the better the professional competence of the teacher is, the more successful the school is.Therefore, this study suggests that in order to create a success in a school the headmaster of the school should improve their democratic leadership and the teacher o the school should improve their professional competence.