Competency and Work Environment as Determinants of Teaching Staff Performance in Indonesian Public Primary Schools
Keywords:
Competency, Work Environment, Teaching Staff Performance, Human Capital, Person-Environment Fit, Public Primary EducationAbstract
This study examines the association between employee competency, work environment, and teaching staff performance in a public primary school in South Jakarta, Indonesia. The revised manuscript rechecked the statistical outputs directly against the original respondent-level tabulations after peer review identified an impossible R² pattern in the earlier draft. Using a quantitative cross-sectional design and saturated sampling (N = 30), primary data from 42 Likert-scale items were analysed with bivariate and multiple linear regression. All instruments met the validity threshold and showed acceptable reliability. Competency showed a positive and significant bivariate association with performance. Work environment showed a positive but statistically non-significant bivariate association at the 5% level. In the corrected simultaneous model, the overall regression remained significant, but only competency retained an independent significant coefficient. The findings suggest that competency strengthening is the more robust immediate lever for improving teaching staff performance in this school, while environmental improvements should be treated as supportive managerial actions that warrant further multi-school verification.
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