Leadership Styles and Turnover Intentions of Public Secondary School Teachers in Dodoma City: The Mediating role of Team-Member Exchange.

Samu, Juhudi E. (2022) Leadership Styles and Turnover Intentions of Public Secondary School Teachers in Dodoma City: The Mediating role of Team-Member Exchange. Masters thesis, t.

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Abstract

This study sought to investigate the relationship between leadership styles, Team Member Exchange and public secondary school teacher’s turnover intentions in Dodoma City.Specifically this study sought to determine the relationship between transformational leadership style and teacher’s turnover intentions, to examine the relationship between Transactional leadership and teachers turnover and to determine the mediating role of team member exchange on the relationship between leadership style and teacher’s turnover intentions. A survey design which was mainly quantitative in nature was used in this study.Questionnaires was used in collectingdata from 189 Public secondary school teachers from ten selected public secondary schools in Dodoma City. Regression analysis was performed to study the relationship between variables. Findings revealed that, transformational leadership style has negative relationship with public secondary school teacher’s turnover intentions in Dodoma city while transactional leadership styles was found to have positive relationship with public secondary school teacher’s turnover intention in Dodoma city. Findings also revealed a non-significant relationship between transformational leadership style and public secondary school teacher’s turnover intentions through TMX. However, transactional leadership style was found to have an indirect negative relationship with teacher’s turnover intentions through TMX. Findings of this study suggested that transformational leadership style is useful in reducing teacher’sturnover intentions. However TMX is reducing turnover intention regardless the styleof leadership p racticed by school heads. Findings of this study can be helpfully in developing strategies and programs for heads of schools to improve their leadership styles that would enable the retention of public secondary school teachers. Keywords: Leadership Styles; Transactional Leadership Style; Transformational Leadership Style; Team Member Exchange; Turnover Intention

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