The effect of competence, leadership and work environment towards motivation and its impact on the performance of teacher of elementary school in Surakarta city, Central Java, Indonesia

This research aims to know effect of competence, leadership and work environment towards motivation and its impact on the performance of teacher of elementary school in Surakarta City, Central Java, Indonesia. A population and samples was the teacher of elementary school in Surakarta City. Instrument analysis used in this research includes: (1) test of instrument, (2) descriptive analysis, and (3) analysis structural equation modeling. Research showed that: (1) competence and leadership not effect towards the motivation, (2) work environment influential significantly towards motivation, (3) competence not affect towards the performance, (4) leadership and work environment influential significantly towards performance, (5) competence not affect towards the performance of teacher without motivation, (6) influential leadership significant towards the performance without motivation, (7) work environment influential significant towards the performance through motivation, (8) work environment influential significantly towards motivation and effect the performance. This means improved teacher performance and motivation of elementary school in Surakarta City effectively can be increased with an increase in the work environment. This research showed that the results for improving the performance of the teacher elementary school in Surakarta could be done by improving the work environment.