North South University

Retention Rate of Teachers:

School, College and Universities
What makes them switch the noble profession?

Submitted to
Dr. Muslima Zahan, PhD
North South University

Written by
Syed Noor-A-Zaman Sadi

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Farah Ahmad

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Sanjana Sabrina

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Naima Rahman Takia

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Date: 11/08/2015

Journal Review on Organizational Behavior (BUS520) under supervision of Dr. Muslima Jahan, PhD
August 10, 2015
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Retention Rate of Teachers: School, College and Universities

What makes them switch the noble profession?
Syed Noor-A-Zaman Sadi
Farah Ahmad
Naima Rahman
Sanjana Sabrina
email: sadi_zaman02@yahoo.com | sanjanasabrina.ss@gmail.com | farahahmad.mithila@yahoo.com |
naima01676@gmail.com

Abstract

Keyword: Retention, Turnover, Teachers, Remuneration, Faculties, Hiring, Nation

builders.

Introduction
Teaching is considered to be a noble
profession all over the world. Teachers are
those who guide us through our life of how
to reach our goal and fulfill our dream.
Not everyone can be a teacher. One must

Researches show that, the average expense

that an organization faces while changing
an employee is from $50 to $200.
(Diemer, n.d.). This includes
-

Cost of hiring
Cost of teaching the new workman
Decreased production by the new

workman
Work spoiled by the employee

possess some qualities to tag the title of it.

Generally, teachers are supposed to be
proud of their profession. Still many of the
times, we see teachers change their
profession or change their employers. We
tried to figure out why such incidents
occur when noble profession like teaching
goes through such issues.

It shows that for any organization its not

easy to have a high turnover regarding
employees.

In the United States of

America, almost 200,000 are hired as new

teachers and by the end of the year, almost

become a good teacher right away when

someone enters into this profession. It
takes years of experience and passion to
transform into a good teacher. A teachers
success

impacts

more

on

students

accomplishment than any other factor

considering school systems. If institutions
examine the retention rates for teachers of
different levels of effectiveness, they will
be able to focus their efforts more
strategically to retain even more highly
effective teachers and counsel out the
Source: (Sawchuk, 2015)

lower

performers.

(The

Center

for

Education Policy Research at Harvard

University, 2012).
If we go down to the basic level, we can see
some theories of why do actually people
leave. There are concepts such as lack of
growth

opportunities,

opportunity

better

elsewhere,

compensation,

did

career

insufficient

not

find

Teacher Retention Over

Five
Years
interesting,
insufficient

work

rewards/

recognition, did not feel efforts where

17%

appreciated,

job

was

not

what

was

expected, poor fit with the organizational

3%
Remained in Original School
Changed Schools
10%

culture, external factors, job left too little

Returned to Profession
Left Profession
time
for personal life, skills/abilities
not a

good match for the job, felt unfairly

treated/discriminated

against,

job

changed focus or scope overtime, poor

70%

relationship

with

the

manager,

the

economy changed, making a move people,

and poor relationship with coworkers.
22,000

are

out

of

the

profession.

(Graziano, 2005). Also, it is not easy to

(Howard, 2007).

Compared to other professions, teaching

Teaching is very important if we consider

might not have all these reasons but still

building our nation. Teachers should get

our mentors are leaving which stimulates

top priority with other important issues of

us to find out the exact reason behind it.

a nation. To motivate and keep the best

There are some teachers who cannot be

minds into this arena, the authority

replaced by anyone else. They are called

should be more concerned about their

irreplaceable.

remuneration,

(TNTP, 2012). Teachers

other

benefits

like

who possesses this caliber are not only

healthcare, security and research facilities.

outstanding

educational

They need to be acknowledged more often

circumstance but also their actions lead to

for their unparalleled service to the nation

more engaging learning experience for the

and to the institute.

learners. Though teaching is said to be not

excellence can be achieved only and only if

just a profession but also a social service,

we can retain the greatest minds of us in

it differs from many ways. In a research

the respective field and support them as

conducted among social service workers, it

our obligation.

in

their

The growth and

showed that the intention to leave the job

depends on organizational commitment,
professional commitment burnout and job
satisfaction. (Michael E. Mor Barak, et al.,
2001).

So,

teaching

profession

characteristics are not exactly like the

other social services. In industrial or
similar professions, the income curve
shows that the income curve moves up till
age sixty and beyond but the income curve
of teachers tends to be horizontal after the
age of thirty to forty. (Diemer, n.d.). Also,
89% of faculties who had yearly salary of
$40,000 or more are teaching more than
five years compared to the 80% faculties
who get less. (Sawchuk, 2015)
A research on school teachers showed that
during 2011-2012 schooling year, 84% of
the teachers remained at the same school,
8% moved to another school and another
8% left the profession. (National Center
for Education Statistics, 2014).

Conclusion
Teachers are the nation builders. They do
their duty relentlessly without having any
rich demand. They are the visionaries who
take us as their apprentice and guide us to
our right path and future. If we dont
recognize their role and dont provide
them with their deserving necessities, the
retention rate get high every day and
eventually we will end up with blank
nation builders.

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