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.creatorMng‘ong‘o, Alfred
dc.date2019-08-19T06:53:07Z
dc.date2019-08-19T06:53:07Z
dc.date2015
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-20T12:07:28Z
dc.date.available2022-10-20T12:07:28Z
dc.descriptionDissertation (MA Public Administration)
dc.descriptionThis 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.identifierMng‘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.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/829
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/829
dc.languageen
dc.publisherThe University of Dodoma
dc.subjectTanzania
dc.subjectMakambako
dc.subjectPublic primary school
dc.subjectPublic secondary school
dc.subjectEmployee turnover
dc.subjectEducation sector
dc.subjectCareer development
dc.subjectProfessional growth
dc.subjectManagerial strategies
dc.subjectOrganization management
dc.subjectOrganization communication
dc.subjectJob satisfaction
dc.titleEffectiveness of managerial strategies against employee turnover in education sector: the case of selected public primary and secondary schools in Makambako town council, Tanzania:
dc.typeDissertation

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