Job satisfaction as a strategy for increasing teachers’ creativity in teaching

Abstract

This study aims to expose creativity as an essential aspect for teachers at schools, and how it is affected by job satisfaction. It employs a quantitative method with causal approach. It involves 219 private vocational high school teachers, whose number is resolved under the Slovin formula and selected by simple random sampling. Data are collected using a job satisfaction questionnaire (X1) and creativity questionnaire (Y), tested for validity and reliability, and processed with SPSS statistical analysis model. The results suggested that teachers' creativity could increase through job satisfaction. A strong indicator that influences teachers’ job satisfaction the most is teaching supervision at schools, compared to the colleague support, salaries, working conditions, and personality. Therefore, to increase the teachers’ creativity, the principal should improve the teaching supervision for teachers. This research contributes in the way that teaching supervision could improve their job satisfaction, which strongly stimulates the improvement of their creativity.

Keywords: Job Satisfaction, Teacher, Teaching Creativity, Teaching Supevision