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    Academic staff turnover at selected institutions of higher learning in Tanzania
    (University of Dar es Salaam, 1993) Munishi, Anthonia Gaspar
    This study attempts to discover salient reasons which have propelled academicians to abandon their institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) in Tanzania. Academicians at IHL are trainers of high level manpower whose demand is yet to be met. The study is Behaviorally approached using Vroom's Expectancy Theory to Motivation. Some literature reveals that the way incentives are administered and provision of adequate remuneration and working conditions are extremely important to realize better services in an organization hence, the control of turnover trend. Based on a sample of 186 teachers, it was largely found out that academicians were incapable of subsisting on their monthly earnings. Moreover, most of the IHL encountered inadequate working conditions. Such a situation sparked off teachers' low morale and lack of commitment to work which in turn influenced high rates of departure. Findings concretized that availability of higher remuneration jobs outside the country extensively contributed to high turnover. Shockingly, it was also found out that 64% of the total attrition comprised of senior academicians. Those who were motivated to remain at their institutions were apparently influenced by desire of attaining higher status (senior academic rank) through long service. To them, higher remunerations and adequate working conditions as factors to induce their staying did not play a significant role as it appears in Tables 3.5 (a) and 3.5(b).To wind up the study it is widely envisaged that the national dismal economic performance is the root cause of influence of teachers' departure. To ameliorate the situation, the government needs to provide higher budgets to the IHL.