Literature Review: How do Leadership and The Principal’s Leadership Style Affect Teacher Performance?

Abstract

There is still debate on whether leadership and principal’s leadership styles have an influence on teacher performance. This article is a literature review study that explains the influence of leadership and principal’s leadership styles on teacher performance. The literature review is compiled based on previous studies that are relevant to the topic discussed. The technique used in selecting articles is by considering keywords and year of publication. The keywords that became the reference for the selection of articles used were principal leadership, principal leadership style and teacher performance. Furthermore, the year of publication of the article was considered only articles published in the last ten years. The criteria of the articles used in this literature review study are: 1) focused on the influence of principal leadership and principal leadership style on teacher performance; 2) articles could be published in national or international journals; 3) articles were published in the last ten years; 4) contained the keywords principal leadership and teacher performance. The articles used as references for this literature review totalled eleven national journal articles. The results show that there is a significant positive influence between principal leadership and teacher performance. Likewise, the principal's leadership style has a significant influence on teacher performance. Therefore, it is important for principals to increase leadership and improve leadership style as an effort to improve teacher performance. This article is expected to be a reference for education stakeholders to improve principal leadership and teacher performance. Further research needs to be conducted thoroughly in order to provide clearer results because some studies reveal that leadership and principals' leadership style have no significant effect on teacher performance.