Teachers' Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, Turnover Intentions, and Actual Turnover: A Secondary Analysis using an Integrative Structural Equation Modeling Approach
Year: 2013
Type: dissertation
Abstract: To better understand how strategic management policies may mitigate teacher turnover, this study presents an alternative conceptual framework, which links three interrelated factors of teaching quality to attitudinal constructs that may influence teachers' turnover decisions.The teacher turnover model, derived from applied psychology, examines how teachers' job satisfaction, organizational commitment, turnover intentions, shocks and economic opportunity are associated with different turnover outcomes.Using structural equation modeling with data from two large national datasets-the 2007-2008 Schools and Staffing Survey and the 2008-2009 Teacher Follow-up Survey-this study aims to identify the determinants of and relative influence of these constructs on five different teacher turnover outcomes.The findings indicate that job satisfaction is significantly, negatively related to turnover intentions, which, in turn, predicts teachers that stay in their respective schools from one year to the next.A broad theme emerges from the findings that suggest teachers stay in their respective schools from one year to
Author: Matthew Finster
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2563360576