Let’s Make Reflection

PRINCIPAL’S ENTREPRENEUR LEADERSHIP MODEL FOR STAKEHOLDERS FIDELITY, LOYALTY, COMMITMENT, AND PARTICIPATION ENHANCEMENT ON VOCATIONAL EDUCATION SCHOOLS DEVELOPMENT Ahmad Dardiri Department of Civil Engineering Education Faculty of Engineering Malang State University ahmad.dardiriyahoo.com Abstract The Purpose of this qualitative research was identify how principals was implemented hisher entrepreneur leadership for enhancing stakeholder’s fidelity, loyalty, commitment, and participations on vocational education schools program’s development. The research data gathering was conducted at Public Vocational High School 6 Malang and Privat Vocational High School PGRI 3 Malang using indept interviews, observasions, and documentations. The research informan are: principals, vice principals, teachers, head of department, head of laboaratorium, school’s commitee, parents, and students. The results of the research show that implementing of entrepreneur leadership model have been enhanced fidelity, loyalty, commitment, and participations of the stakeholders on vocational educations schools programs development. Principals have implemented hisher leadership with: 1 build entrepreneurs vision and mission development, 2 gived entrepreneur motivations and inspirations, 3 developed communications and informations excange intensively with stakeholers, 4 build quality based entrepreneur climate culture, and 5 used collaborative-participatif decision making. Principals was implement managerial focused on: 1 creative and innovative teaching learning proscess quality improvent, 2 providing infrastucture base on industrial need or teaching factory, and 3 giving excelent services for stakeholders satisfy. Despitefully, principals was promoted hisher differentiation of schools quality as school brand. Keywords: Principal, leadership, entrepreneur, fidelity, loyalty, commitment, vocational education.

1. Introduction

Vocational High School VHS has a strategic role to prepare high quality of the middle-level skilled manpower required by the communityindustry. High quality vocational school graduates will support the industrial productivity and ultimately improve national productivity. But government policies implemented for nearly six decades that prefers Genaral High School graduated compared to VHS leads most of the secondary school graduate to choose the General High School than the Vocational High School. The VHS input has a lower quality than the high school input. Society still views VHS as a less prestigiousquality education. The impact to an educational system which consists of input-process- output, low quality of inputs carry implications for the difficulty of handling the process or obtaining the high quality of output. Use Ref. [1], Ref. [2], Ref. [3], Ref. [4], Ref. [5], Ref. [6], and Ref. [7] Vocational High School images in the view of stakeholders is still low. Appresiation and fidelity of the industry towards vocational education graduates is still low. Besides participating of industrial sector on vocational education in Indonesia is still low Ref. [8], Ref [9], Ref. [10], Ref.11. Ref. [12], and Ref 13. Use Ref. [14], Ref [15, and Ref. [16] the principles of vocational education requires VHS to implement the workplace learningdual ssystem Then the school should cooperate with the industry. The principal must be able to convince the industry so that industry has the fidelity and commitment to support the preparation of vocational school graduates as a candidate for a high quality workforce. The principal should be able to communicate the excellence of school to the industry so that industry has the trusty and willingness to support vocational education programs. However, the capacity of leadership of VHS is still low Ref. [17], Ref. [18], Ref. [19] Government policies to improve the quality of VHS has been done through various programs 1 Building the principal’s capacity, 2 Promoting VHS through mass media, 3 Bbuilding an International Standard of VHS, 4 Changing the ratio of VHS : high school of 30 : 70 to 70 : 30 Ref. [20], Ref. [21]. However, the effectiveness and outcomes of the program is still questionable. 85