The Effect of Incentive Reward, School Principal Leadership, Work Motivation on the Performance of Senior High School Teachers in Medan

Improving teaching performance is most likely an act that leads to substantial gains in student learning, essential to know the strengths of teachers and those aspects of their practice which could be further developed. The objective of this research is to find out the effect of incentive, leadership, and work motivation on teacher performance. Research findings showed a direct effect of incentive reward on teacher performance, which reached the value of 0.350, whereas the indirect effect of incentive on teacher performance through work motivation was at the value of 0.155. The direct effect of school principal leadership on teacher performance was at the value of 0.156, whereas the indirect effect of school principal leadership on performance through work motivation was 0.094. The direct effect of work motivation on performance reached the value of 0.378.

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