Track: Master Thesis Competition

Abstract

The term VUCA refers to a volatile, complex, and uncertain environment caused by the new normal. In responding to VUCA's volatile environmental conditions, the education sector must adapt to the conditions. Teachers as educators must do various ways to achieve teacher performance. Teachers must have innovations to prepare skills that are ready to face the changes in the educational sector. This research aims how the competency of teachers in dealing with 21st century education through digital competency, the leadership of a teacher towards themself through self-leadership, innovative behavior of a teacher through innovative work behavior and its effect on teacher performance with quantitative approach. The novelty in this research is the addition of the theory to its application on islamic educational sector. Structural equation model (SEM) is applied to assess the model fit and to test the research hypothesis and was processed using SmartPls 3. Based on the hypothesis testing, the findings of the study indicates that digital competency and innovative work behavior have a positive and significant influence on employee performance. However, self-leadership does not have a positive and significant influence on employee performance. This is explained with supported literature in this paper.