Effect of Organizational Communication and Transformational Leadership on Increasing Employee Work Motivation at SMAN 2 Tangerang Regency During the Covid 19 Pandemic

The existence of educators (teachers) and education staff are human resources for SMAN 2 Tangerang Regency and are the most important assets owned by the institution and taken into account by school managers. The reliability and capacity of human resources, teachers and educational staff at SMAN 2 Tangerang Regency have a duty to continue to be able to improve quality and affordable competencies for students in order to realize the highest degree of education. This study aims to determine the effect of organizational communication and transformational leadership of the principal on increasing the work motivation of teachers and education staff at SMAN 2 Tangerang Regency. The research approach used is quantitative. All teachers and education staff at SMAN 2 Tangerang Regency, totaling 67 people, were sampled in this study. The analytical technique used in this research is multiple linear regression analysis. The results of data analysis show that: 1. Organizational communication has a significant influence on the work motivation of teachers and education staff at SMAN 2 Tangerang Regency by 0.301 or 30.1%; 2. Transformational leadership has a significant influence on the work motivation of teachers and education staff at SMAN 2 Tangerang Regency by 0.354 or 35.4%; 3. Organizational communication and transformational leadership have a significant effect simultaneously on the work motivation of teachers and education staff at SMAN 2 Tangerang Regency by 0.245 or 24.5%