Bulletin of Educational Management and Innovation

The boundary role of motivation in the relationship between competence, leadership, work environment, and teachers’ continuance commitment

2026-08-17T05:38:57+07:00

Background: Keeping highly qualified teaching staff demands comprehensive insight into the mental and structural drivers shaping an educator's choice to stay at their current school. While professional capability, administrative guidance, and workplace conditions are established predictors of institutional loyalty, it is still unclear how professional drive acts as a moderator within these dynamics.

Purpose: The current inquiry explores the capacity of occupational motivation to serve as an interacting variable, specifically examining its influence on the pathways linking competence, leadership styles, and school climate with continuous institutional loyalty amid escalating job demands.

Method: This research employed a cross-sectional explanatory design involving 250 state junior high educators in Salatiga City, Indonesia. Participants were chosen via a proportional randomized sampling approach. To gather information, we distributed standardized, independently completed surveys based on validated metrics. Responses were measured on a 5-level rating format to capture participant viewpoints. Finally, the empirical data underwent evaluation via Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM).

Findings: The structural model explained 76.6% of the variance in teachers’ continuance commitment. Competence, leadership, work environment, and work motivation each had positive effects on continuance commitment. However, work motivation demonstrated differential moderating effects: it weakened the relationship between leadership and continuance commitment, strengthened the relationship between work environment and continuance commitment, and did not significantly moderate the relationship between competence and continuance commitment. These findings suggest that work motivation operates as a context-dependent mechanism rather than uniformly strengthening organizational influences, highlighting its importance in developing effective teacher retention strategies.

The effectiveness of differentiated learning-based digital worksheets in enhancing vocational high school students' mathematical literacy

2026-08-23T11:13:41+07:00

Background: Mathematical literacy is essential for real-world problem-solving, yet vocational students often demonstrate low competence due to teacher-centered instruction and uniform worksheets that fail to accommodate diverse readiness.

Purpose: This study examined the effectiveness of differentiated learning-based digital worksheets in enhancing vocational students' mathematical literacy. The novelty lies in integrating differentiated pedagogy with adaptive digital worksheets tailored to automotive vocational contexts, providing personalized learning pathways across formulate, employ, and interpret competencies.

Method: This quantitative field study employed a one-group pretest–posttest design. Random sampling was used to select 32 Grade XI students from the Automotive Engineering program at SMKN 1 Kendal Ngawi, Indonesia. Data were collected using a three-item contextual mathematical literacy test representing the formulate, employ, and interpret competencies of the OECD framework. The instrument was validated by experts for content, construct, and language validity before administration. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, the Shapiro–Wilk test, Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test, effect size, and a one-sample proportion test.

Findings: Students' mean mathematical literacy score increased from 50.1 to 80.0, while classical mastery reached 88%. The Wilcoxon test indicated a significant difference (p < 0.001), with a large effect size (r = 0.87). Formulate showed the highest achievement (88.64%), followed by employ (82.10%), while interpret was the lowest (65.23%).

Implication: These findings suggest the potential of differentiated digital worksheets to support vocational students' mathematical literacy through adaptive and contextual learning experiences. Because the study lacked a control group, the findings should be interpreted cautiously.

Quiet quitting among Indonesian civil servants from a public service motivation perspective: A social media discourse analysis and literature review

2026-07-22T13:05:20+07:00

Background: Research on quiet quitting has been predominantly conducted in the private sector, while studies examining this phenomenon among Indonesian civil servants remain limited, particularly those employing the Public Service Motivation (PSM) perspective and qualitative approaches. This gap suggests that the unique structural characteristics of public bureaucracy may not be adequately explained by the generic frameworks developed from private-sector.

Purpose: This study aims to examine the phenomenon of quiet quitting among Indonesian civil servants through the lens of Public Service Motivation by synthesizing the existing literature and analyzing public discourse on social media.

Method: This study employed a qualitative descriptive-analytical approach. The primary data consisted of nineteen indexed scholarly references, while the secondary data comprised the top 798 comments purposively selected from 4,323 public comments on an Instagram post published by @birokrat.muda on 26 March 2026. After excluding non-substantive comments, 787 comments were analyzed using a netnographic approach and thematically mapped onto the four dimensions of Public Service Motivation.

Findings: The findings reveal that the themes receiving the highest public resonance were not necessarily the most frequently discussed. The theme of minimal discretionary effort received the highest average engagement (35.10 likes), followed by legal and administrative risks (26.48 likes) and perceived failures of the merit system (26.04 likes), all substantially exceeding the overall average of 12.29 likes. In contrast, the most frequent theme-avoidance of structural positions (19.6% of comments)-generated relatively low resonance (4.27 likes). Although work-life balance remained present as a generic antecedent commonly reported in private-sector literature, it was not the dominant concern in the Indonesian civil service discourse.

Implication: These findings show that quiet quitting among Indonesian civil servants is best understood as an erosion of the self-sacrifice and commitment to public interest dimensions of Public Service Motivation, reinforced by structural characteristics unique to the Indonesian bureaucratic system rather than merely reflecting the generic patterns identified in private-sector studies.