Abstract
Academic Staff retention is one of the challenges facing several University in both the developed and developing countries of the world. The purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants of Academic Staff Turnover Intention in case of Bonga University. The study measured determinants and its relation with Turnover intention in the Bonga University. The sample consisted of 157 respondents’ selected based on random sampling procedure. Primary data were collected by using 5-point Likert scale questionnaire. The result of the study showed that determinants; External factors have strong influence on Academic Staff Turnover Intention and weak impact with personal and Internal factors to Turnover Intention at Bonga University. The correlation results indicate that there is a positive correlation between the determinants and Turnover Intention. The results of the regression test showed that External factors have significant on Turnover intention. Thus, the determinants affect turnover intention that have not improve in order to maximizing academic programs and working conditions, working with city administration in order to facilitate better living and recreation centres, solving house problem staff and facilitating good education for children. The prevalence of academic staff intending to leave was found to be moderate and as a result, Before the intention is going to high rate take action in order to fill gaps of external factors the result presented and there should be staff retention mechanisms in place to improve the work environment and remuneration methods to retain senior and skilled academicians. Generally, based on the above findings the researchers were forward the possible recommendation and future research direction. Keywords: Turnover Intention, Personal factors, Internal factors, External factors, Academic Staff DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/10-5-05 Publication date: March 31 st 2020
Highlights
Introduction BongaUniversity is one of the fourth generation Universities located in South Western Ethiopia
It was established in 2016 G.C and consists of seven colleges; currently 295 academic staff were working in different departments
The reliability coefficient applied in this research allowed to identify the stability, consistency and enhance the accuracy of assessment of the data instrument used in this research and it coefficient varies between 0 and 1 (Tavakol and Dennick, 2011), where Bryman and Bell (2011) considered acceptable internal reliability when greater than 0.80, and others authors considered as excellent internal reliability when the Cronbach’s alpha is greater than 0.9, good between 0.8 and 0.9, acceptable between 0.7 and 0.8, questionable between 0.6 and 0.7, and the others results lower than 0.5 can be explained by a low number of items, poor inter-relatedness between items or heterogeneous constructs
Summary
Introduction BongaUniversity is one of the fourth generation Universities located in South Western Ethiopia. Solomon (2000) concludes that the government's response to the brain drain appears coercive in its nature, Empirical results of the aforementioned authors revealed that due to insufficient salaries and poor incentive systems the academic staff in public universities of Ethiopia are forced to quit the academic arena and engage in private consultancy or extra teaching to supplement their meagre salaries. In line with this Damtew (2004) reaffirmed that the principal serious challenges facing many African countries is the departure of their calibre workforce and scientists away from universities either in the form of internal mobility or brain drain. Even though legislations of the universities provide university teachers need to allocate 25% of their total time for research work, many academic staff members are not involved in research and studies as part of their assignments (Teshome, 2004)
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