Strengthening Organizational Culture, Transformational Leadership, Self-Efficacy, and Achievement Motivation in Increasing Innovation Efforts

Abstract

Teacher innovativeness is the activity of a teacher in creating new ideas and placing oneself in a service and services that are improved or repaired to improve the quality of learning. This study aims to identify the direct influence of organizational culture, transformational leadership, self-efficacy, and achievement motivation on teacher innovation; the direct influence of organizational culture, transformational leadership, and self-efficacy on achievement motivation, as well as the indirect influence of organizational culture, transformational leadership, and self-efficacy on teacher innovation through achievement motivation. The research was conducted using quantitative methods with path analysis. The population of this study was 634 teachers at SMK Negeri in Kuningan Regency, with a sample size of 245 teachers. The results showed that there was a positive and significant direct effect: 1) organizational culture on teacher innovativeness (?y1=0.210;?<0.01); 2) transformational leadership on teacher innovativeness (?y2=0.433;?<0.01); 3) self-efficacy on teacher innovation (?y3=0.361;?<0.01); 4) achievement motivation on teacher innovation (?y4=0.126;?<0.01); 5) organizational culture on achievement motivation (?41=0.2143;?<0.01); 6) transformational leadership on achievement motivation (?42=0.099;?<0.01); 7) self-efficacy on achievement motivation (?43=0.666;?<0.01). The achievement motivation variable functions effectively as a mediator of the influence of self-efficacy on innovation and does not function effectively as a mediator of the influence of transformational leadership and organizational culture on innovation. This research has implications that educational organizations need to pay attention to factors to increase teacher innovation, such as building a work environment that supports innovation, providing training and support to improve skills and knowledge, and rewarding innovative ideas.