Effectiveness of human resource management practices on the retention of mathematics teachers: A case of public secondary schools in Arusha city council
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2013
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Mzumbe University
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Employee retention is one of the challenges facing many organizations today. For many organizations, strategic staffing has become a concern because the ability to hold on to highly talented employees can be critical to the future survival of the organization. This study assess the effectiveness of human resource management practices namely Employee empowerment, Training and development, Performance appraisal and compensation on the retention of public secondary schools mathematics teachers, taking Arusha city council as a case study. The research aim was to study how Mathematics teachers regard the effectiveness of the mentioned HRM practices on their decision to remain or quit. Data were collected using questionnaires consisting of questions with 5-points Likert scales distributed to samples of 61 mathematics teachers in Arusha City Council. Analysis of data was done using SPSS Version 16.0 descriptive statistic software. The study revealed that Human resource management practices namely compensation, empowerment, training and development and appraisal system in the education sector, as observed from Arusha City council were not effective to facilitate retention of mathematics teachers. It was further revealed that compensation plays a vital part on the decision of employee (mathematics teacher) to stay or quit. However, not all private schools are paying well compared to the public schools, other factors such as good working environments, leadership and more non-financial benefits that are offered by private schools encourages mathematics teachers to run away from public to private schools and other institutions that needs them.
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A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Human Resource Management (MSc-HRM) of Mzumbe University.
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Human resource management, Employee retention, Human resources management practices, Public secondary schools
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APA