Effectiveness Of Managerial Strategies Against Employee Turnover In Education Sector: The Case Of Selected Public Primary And Secondary Schools In Makambako Town Council, Tanzania

ABSTRACT 

This study is aimed to examine the Effectiveness of Managerial Strategies in 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.