The Implementation of Servant Leadership in Improving Teachers’ Performance at Elementary School (Study Case at Catholic Elementary Schools in Bandung)

Abstract

—This research wants to explain the implementation of servant leadership of principals toward the improvement of teachers’ performance at catholic elementary school in Bandung. This research aims to discover the way of model implementation of principal’s servant leadership in improving teachers’ performance, so it influences on the increasing of school’s quality. This research uses a descriptive-qualitative method. The result shows that the servant leadership of principals has an effect on the increasing of teachers’ performance, as a result the quality of catholic elementary school in Bandung increases. The implementation of servant leadership’s criteria can empower teachers, create vision together at school, build self-confidence, encourage teachers’ motivation and commitment to improve the quality of school, be open toward the development of era and establish an open communication with teachers, so they are open each other. The implementation of servant leadership in total affects in the increasing of the school quality.