Selected Job Satisfaction Factors and Teacher Turnover Intention : A Case of Secondary School Teachers

ISBN-13: 9783659880520 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 116 str.

Margaret M. Emoja; Epari Ejakait; Paul Ogenga

Opis

Teachers are leaving the teaching profession in large numbers annually. With this deficit, the student teacher ratio has gone up to 75:1. Individualized attention to slow learners has reduced leading to a decline in the quality of education. Research shows that most teachers in Kenya are dissatisfied with their job yet satisfied employees hardly think of leaving their current jobs. Is job satisfaction linked to teacher turnover intention? This book provides the influence of selected job satisfaction factors on teacher turnover intention. Mann-Whitney U test, Spearmans correlation coefficient and Multinomial logistic regression were used to measure the effect of salary, working conditions and career progression on teacher turnover intention.The analysis should shed some light on the significance of teacher job satisfaction in controlling teacher turnover intention for quality education and commitment. The analysis should be more useful to educational planners, policy makers, head teachers, boards of management and all stakeholders in education who should put measures in place to improve the job satisfaction of teachers in order to retain them in the teaching profession.

O autorze

Margaret M. Emoja, B Sc: studied Zoology, Botany and Mathematics at Kenyatta University. PGDE: studied Education at Egerton University. She is a Masters student undertaking Educational Planning and Management at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology. Heading the Mathematics department at Bukhaywa secondary sch., Kakamega, Kenya.