The Effect of Soft Skills, Competence and Human Relations Skills on Principal Leadership

The ability to manage an individual’s time, to plan and to assign priorities, the ability to think critically, to solve problems and fix decision, or the ability to create a good working relationship through networks are just a few of several soft skills that a person needs to have in order to serve efficiently in the workplace. This research aims to investigate the effect of soft skills on principal leadership. To investigate the effect of competence on principal leadership. To investigate the effect of Human Relationship Skills on principal leadership. To investigate the effect of Soft Skills, Competence and Human Relationship Skills on principal leadership.
The population in this research is all SMA (General Secondary School)/SMK (Vocational Secondary School) principals amounting to 93 civil servants composed of several divisions, while the samples of 75 people were taken using total sampling method. In data analysis technique, Linear Regression technique was used, Classical Assumptions Test, Parameter Estimates, Hypothesis Testing and Coefficient of Determination (R2).
The study leads to the results that soft skill has an effect on principal leadership. This means that improving soft skills will develop principal leadership. Competence has no effect on principal leadership. With the decline of competencies followed by the decline of principal leadership, Human Relationship Skills on Principal leadership. With the existence of improvement of Human Relationship Skills followed by increasing the leadership of the Principal and no influence of Soft Skills, Komptensi and Human Relationship Skills against the leadership of the head of the school.