The Impact of Organizational Culture on Employees’ Retention: A Case of Public Secondary Schools in Dodoma Municipal Council.

Selengeta, Samwel Joseph (2020) The Impact of Organizational Culture on Employees’ Retention: A Case of Public Secondary Schools in Dodoma Municipal Council. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine the impact of organizational culture on employees’ retention in public secondary schools. However, the study was specifically conducted in Dodoma region at Dodoma Municipal Council, whereby teachers and municipality education officers were the focal point of the study. The research used two approaches, quantitative approach and qualitative approach. Two sampling design were used to select a sample of 106 respondents whereas purposive sampling was used to select 10 heads of school and 3 municipality education officers and simple random sampling was used to select 93 ordinary teachers. A Sample of 13 respondents who were heads of school and municipality education officers were interviewed, and also the sample of 93 respondents from staff teachers were provided with questionnaires, data were collected and analyzed where the findings indicated that personal freedom, social and job security, respect of individual rights, opportunities for personal advancement and growth are influential factors for teachers’ retention. Therefore, the conclusion made that teachers in public secondary schools were satisfied with the provision of personal freedom, social and job security, respect of individual rights as well as the provision of opportunities for personal advancement and growth. However, it is recommended that the Government and school administrations should search for other retention strategies such as promotion, recognition, reasonable salaries, improving working conditions as well as provision of accommodations within the school environment in order to improve teachers’ retention in public secondary schools. Keywords: Organizational Culture, retention employees, Public Secondary School

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