Teachers’ Turnover Intentions: Role of HRM Practices in Public Secondary Schools in Kenya
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Date
2021
Authors
Kamau, Onesmus
Muathe, Stephen M.A.
Wainaina, Lawrence
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Publisher
Taylor and Francis
Abstract
Employees play a key role in the achievement of organizations’ objectives and thus every organization endeavors to ensure employee retention.
However, as the organization endeavors to do this, they are faced with the challenge of employees’ turnover intentions. Although it has been suggested that
Human Resource Management (HRM) practices may affect employees’ turnover
intentions, the extent of this effect has been inconsistent in previous studies.
Moreover, literature on HRM practices and turnover intentions in Kenyan context is
limited hence prompting this research. The study thus sought to investigate the
effect of compensation, career management, performance appraisal and training
on turnover intentions of teachers in public secondary schools in Murang’a county
Kenya. The study had its basis on Social exchange, Organization equilibrium and
Expectancy confirmatory theories. The target population was 3752 Teachers Service
Commission (TSC) teachers in 304 public secondary schools in Murang’a county
Kenya. A two multi stage random sampling method was applied to select a sample size of 40 schools and 400 teachers. A self-administered semi-structured questionnaire and interview guide were data collection tools. The study used descriptive
statistics and logistic regression and content analysis for data analysis. The study
findings indicated that compensation and training significantly influenced turnover
intentions while career development and performance appraisal insignificantly
influenced public secondary schools’ teachers’ turnover intentions in Murang’a
county Kenya. Policy implications of study findings have been discussed.
Subjects: Management Education; Human Resource Management; Organizational Studies
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Keywords
HRM Practices, public secondary schools, turnover intentions, teachers, logistic regression
Citation
Onesmus Kamau, Stephen M.A. Muathe & Lawrence Wainaina | (2021) TEACHERS’ TURNOVER INTENTIONS: ROLE OF HRM PRACTICES IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KENYA, Cogent Business & Management, 8:1, 1980262, DOI: 10.1080/23311975.2021.1980262