LEADERSHIP CAPABILITIES AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE ON THE AGILITY OF LOW-COST PRIVATE SCHOOL AND ISTIQAMAH AS A MEDIATING VARIABLE

Abstract

Low-cost private high school become key support in ensuring the fulfilment 12-year compulsory education stated by Indonesian Education Law. With only 40 percent of the total population able to attend public schools, the government as well as the private sector needs to accommodate affordable private schools to meet the need of high schools in Jakarta. Low cost private schools become essential in providing the gap between the need of schools from the total population of students and the availability of the public school. Unfortunately low cost private school facing a suffer from a lack of new students because they are already “lost in the competition” with other school due to incapability to adapt to current condition. This quality includes the capability of the low cost private schools to adapt with technology and change. Another finding is that low-cost private schools struggling in managing the funding and management. This research conduct in 133 low cost private high school in Jakarta in which all of them are Islamic low cost private high school. The finding of this study is that school principal leadership capabilities and school culture are positively affect school agility with Istiqamah as mediated variable.

Keywords : Leadership Capabilities, Organisational Culture, Istiqamah, Organisational Agility