Effectiveness of managerial strategies against employee turnover in education sector: the case of selected public primary and secondary schools in Makambako town council, Tanzania:

Mng‘ong‘o, Alfred

dc.creator	Mng‘ong‘o, Alfred
dc.date	2019-08-19T06:53:07Z
dc.date	2019-08-19T06:53:07Z
dc.date	2015
dc.date.accessioned	2022-10-20T12:07:28Z
dc.date.available	2022-10-20T12:07:28Z
dc.identifier	Mng‘ong‘o, A. (2015). Effectiveness of managerial strategies against employee turnover in education sector: the case of selected public primary and secondary schools in Makambako town council, Tanzania. Dodoma: The University of Dodoma..
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/829
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/829
dc.description	Dissertation (MA Public Administration)
dc.description	This study is aimed to examine the Effectiveness of Managerial Strategies against the Employee Turnover in Education Sector: The case of Selected Public Primary and Secondary Schools in Makambako Town Council. The study adopted, the survey design, which is broadly qualitative in nature. Survey/Questionnaire and Interview/guide are methods and tools, which have been used to collect data from informants. The study involved 64 respondents namely teachers, school heads and ward educational coordinators. The purposive sampling has been used to get school heads and ward educational coordinators. While simple random sampling has been used to obtain the number of teachers to participate in sample size. Descriptive statistics has been employed to analyze data in which these results are assisted by Statistical Package for Social Sciences program (SPSS) version 20 and presented in form of tables. The findings reveal that inadequate salaries, allowances, housing and lack of promotion to the school teachers are the most agent of causing school teacher turnover (91.8%), followed by high number of students per class (66.2%). The effects of school teacher turnover are irregular attendance and high pupils repetition and drop out (60.8%), improper implementation of new programmes (59.5%) increasing work stress to the present teachers (52.6%), and detrimental to the school‘s productivity (51.9%). the managerial strategies against school teacher turnover which has been practiced positively are involvement of teachers in decision making in workstation (63.5%) and availability of career advancement to the teachers (55.6%). Therefore, the study concludes that government should improve salary, allowances, housing and working conditions and formulate policies that are implementable within school levels.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	The University of Dodoma
dc.subject	Tanzania
dc.subject	Makambako
dc.subject	Public primary school
dc.subject	Public secondary school
dc.subject	Employee turnover
dc.subject	Education sector
dc.subject	Career development
dc.subject	Professional growth
dc.subject	Managerial strategies
dc.subject	Organization management
dc.subject	Organization communication
dc.subject	Job satisfaction
dc.title	Effectiveness of managerial strategies against employee turnover in education sector: the case of selected public primary and secondary schools in Makambako town council, Tanzania:
dc.type	Dissertation