IMPROVING SCHOOL ORGANIZATION CAPACITY IN RESPONDING EFFECTIVELY TO CHANGES IN EXTERNAL CONTEXTS

IMPROVING SCHOOL  ORGANIZATION CAPACITY IN RESPONDING EFFECTIVELY TO CHANGES

IN EXTERNAL CONTEXTS

Oleh :Salahuddin

(Guru SMPN 2 Wera- Kabupaten Bima)

Abstract

School organizations are now dealing with preassures from external contexts, particularly from stakeholders who are demanding schools to attain higher levels of scrutiny concerning the quality of education. It is seen as a fact that schools organizations especially in Indonesia fail to meet desirable standard for students’ outcome. Morover, such reality is coupled with is coupled with the complaints from some parents that their children have poor literacy and numeracy skills. It is contended that the primary reason of those failures deals with teachers’ motivation and work climate within the school. Therefore, school organizations need to improve their capacity. In other words, school organizations in Indonesia are encouraged to strategically take necessary steps so that the fundamental objectives of increasing students’ achievements can be obtained. Providing adequate incentives to staffs would be the short-term objective to improve school organization capacity and changing current organizational culture by adopting the concept of learning organization would be the long-term objective. However, school organizations need to be consistent in implementing the frameworks so that the truly objective desired can be achieved.

Keyword : Improving School,  organization capacity,  responding effectively, external contexts