Examine Relationship of Soft Skills, Hard Skills, Innovation and Performance: the Mediation Effect of Organizational Learning

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to measure the effect of hard skills and soft skills towards teachers’ innovation capability which was mediated by an organizational learning and to measure the effect of teachers’ innovation capability towards their performance. Data collection was done by simple random sampling to 251 population of the teachers in five private senior high schools di Tangerang. The returned and valid questionnaire results were 211 samples. SEM method with Smart PLS 3.0 software is used for data processing. Hard skills and soft skills are concluded as a result of research that has a positive and significant effect on the capability of teachers’ innovation, both directly and indirectly through mediation of the organizational learning. As well as the capability of teachers’ innovation has a positive and significant effect on their performance. A model for building innovation capability and teacher performance among teachers in Tangerang through enhancing hard and soft skills with organizational learning as a mediator was proposed as new research. To improve teacher readiness in facing the era of education 4.0 this study was pave.