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

      Аннотация: 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.

Ключевые слова: career progression, job satisfaction, quality, salary, secondary school, working conditions, Teacher turnover intention, Satisfaction factors, Relative risk ratio