Role of principals’ promotional opportunities on retention: Case of secondary school teachers in Homa Bay County, Kenya
Abstract
The study investigated the role of principals’ promotional opportunities on
retention: case of secondary school teachers in Homa Bay County, Kenya. Two
sets of questionnaires were used; one for the school principals and another for
the teachers. To enhance validity of the instrument, a pilot study was conducted
in twenty selected schools in all the six sub-counties of Homa Bay County. This
involved the ten principals and two teachers from each school. In this study,
internal consistency reliability of the instruments was obtained by computing
Cronbach’s alpha (α) using SPSS and a Cronbach’s Alpha of α= .830 was
reported. Two methods were adopted for data analysis where both descriptive
and inferential statistics were employed. The findings indicated that availability
of teacher promotional opportunities was a significant predicator of teacher
retention [F (1, 420) = 71.889, p < .05, R2
= .144] and positive correlation between
the two variables at [r = .382, n = 422, p<.05].The study recommends that the
Principals’ through the Ministry of Education should be able to empower
teachers at their work stations as this will give intrinsic satisfaction. The
administrators should assure teachers upward mobility at their work place as
this increases teachers confidence at work place and self-reliance. Principals
should recommend teachers for professional growth either within or outside
their schools to enhance teacher’s retention. A functional teacher professional
development strategy needs to be put by the government through the Ministry of
Education to control teacher’s transfer rates. The Teachers Service Commission
needs to ensure that teachers are transferred annually and only by the end of
each year and this be made a guiding policy to all County Directors of Education.
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