EFFECT OF SELF-EFFICACY, INFORMATION QUALITY, AND CONFLICT HANDLING ON DECISION-MAKING OF VOCATIONAL COMPETENCY TEACHERS IN JAKARTA
Taufiq Damarjati, Thamrin Abdullah, Billy Tunas

Ministry of Education and Culture
State University of Jakarta
State University of Jakarta

Abstract

The role of vocational competency teachers is very vital in developing vocational competency of vocational high school graduates in Jakarta, Indonesia^s economic growth and human resource development barometer. However, some vocational competency teachers in Jakarta still has problems on decision-making especially in giving reward and punishments to students as well as determining learning strategies. Issues to be addressed in this study is the effect of self-efficacy, information qualiy, and conflict handling to teacher^s decision-making. The methodology used is survey research that tries to create a picture of systematic, factual and accurate information on the facts and the properties on a specific object. This research involves 292 vocational competency teachers as samples. The results indicated that self-efficacy, information quality, and conflict handling effect vocational competency teacher decision-making. Researcher also recommends the importance of implementing programs related to increasing self-efficacy, and improvement to information quality as well as conflict handling capacity by government and school, which are still less concerned.

Keywords: self-efficacy, information quality, conflict handling, decision making, vocational competency teachers

Topic: Education