Evaluation Of Retention Strategies In Retaining Teachers Of Public Secondary Schools In Tanzania: A Case Study Of Dodoma Municipality

ABSTRACT

This study aimed at evaluating the retention strategies in retaining teachers of public

secondary schools in Tanzania, focusing on Dodoma Municipality. The researcher used

focus group discussion combined with questionnaire, interview and documentary

review as the means of obtaining data. The sample size was 98 respondents and

Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) was used to analyze the collected data.

Furthermore, descriptive statistics summarized the information from the collected data.

From the research findings, the study revealed that high salaries, promotion, good

working environment and good policies were the most important factors for retaining

the teachers of public secondary schools in Dodoma Municipality. Again, from the

research findings, it was revealed that the failure to provide the above mentioned

requirements, resulted in poor service delivery, poor students‟ performance and hence

failure to meets the intended objectives.

Furthermore, it was found that, the employee intentions to remain within an

organization was influenced by three major groups of variables which were employee

personal characteristics, such as gender, age, position level, the nature of an employee‟s

current job and adequate working arrangements, including aspects such as salary, the

quality of current supervision, opportunities for promotion, available training, and the

quality of communication within the organization. Generally, the study recommends

that, there must be well designed policies and strategies to retain the teachers in public

secondary schools.