Effectiveness of Retention Strategies of Public Secondary School Teachers in Tanzania: a case of Kinondoni Municipal Council

This study was designed to assess effectiveness of retention strategies of public secondary school Teachers. Specific objectives of the study were to identify retention strategies used by the public secondary schools in Kinondoni Municipal Council, to examine job satisfaction of Teachers in Kinondoni Municipal Council, to assess the municipal effort to retain public secondary school teachers in Kinondoni and to investigate attitude of public secondary schools teachers’ intention to stay or quit their schools. The data were collected through documentary sources, and questionnaires, and it was analysed using SPSS where as frequency distribution, and descriptive statistics, was used as initial tools of analysis. The study identified a number of retention strategies used by the public secondary schools in Tanzania such as social recognition, employee recognition, and socialization environment between members. In addition to that, medical and insurance benefits and safe working conditions were identified as retention strategies. Furthermore, the findings have shown that Teachers are not satisfied with their professional competence, social recognition they have in the community, in service training opportunities and municipal promotion practices. The findings have shown that municipal efforts to retain Teachers in public secondary school are minimal. In addition, the findings have shown that Teachers have positive attitude towards their job. The study recommends that human resource policy of the Kinondoni Municipal Council should be improved to match the life reality.