The Influence of Principal’s Communication and Conflict Management towards the Work Discipline of Teachers at SMA PGRI Tanjungsiang Subang

—Nowadays the teacher's work discipline research has been reviewed by a number of researchers. The previous studies were only focusing on discussion of the influence of teacher’s work discipline. In contrast to the previous studies, researcher in this study assume that one of the factors lead to teacher’s indiscipline is communication and conflict management of the principal. This study aims to determine the influence of communication and conflict management of the principal toward teachers’ work discipline. The research used survey method. The research hypothesis test used the SPSS (Statistical Product and Service Solutions) program 21.0 For Windows. The study sample consisted of 15 teachers taken from the entire population using the jenuh sampling method. The results of the study concluded that: (1) there is a positive influence of the principal's communication on the teacher's work discipline at 9.6%, (2) there is a positive influence of the principal's conflict management on the teacher's work discipline of 7.8%, (3) there is an insignificant positive influence of communication and conflict management of the principal toward the teacher's work discipline by 10%. Based on the study, it is concluded that the principal’s communication and conflict management can improve teacher’s work discipline.