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Research Paper | Management | Indonesia | Volume 3 Issue 8, August 2014 | Rating: 7 / 10

Teachers Socioeconomic Status and Its Relationship with Teachers Work Morale and Teachers Job Performance at State Senior High Schools in Merauke Regency - Indonesia

Basilius Redan Werang

Abstract: Teachers? job performance is the way teachers perform their work in the classroom. This research aimed to examine the relationship between teachers' socialeconomic status (SES), teachers? work morale, and teachers' job performance. The nature of this research was a correlational research that was conducted using survey method as it sought to establish relationships among various variables of the research. The samole of this research comprised 118 teachers at State Senior High Schools in Merauke regency. Questionairres were the main tool of the research to collect data. The data were given quantitative treatment using path analyses technique. In order that data were analyzed well, the reseacher using the help of Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 16 for windows. Based on the data analyses, the findings revealed that: (a) there was a significant relationship between teachers? SES and teachers? work morale at state senior high schools in Merauke regency, Papua, Indonesia; (b) there was a significant relationship between teachers? SES and teachers? job performance at state senior high schools in Merauke regency, Papua, Indonesia; and (c) there was a significant relationship between teachers? wok morale and teachers? job performance at state senior high schools in Merauke regency, Papua, Indonesia.

Keywords: teachers socioeconomic status, teachers work morale, teachers job performance, state senior high schools, Merauke regency

Edition: Volume 3 Issue 8, August 2014,

Pages: 436 - 440