Abstract
PURPOSE: The purpose of this paper was to review the various studies on the relationship between career plateauing, turnover intentions and teacher decisions in order to pursue further studies. METHODS: The empirical study focused on the forms of career plateauing faced by teachers, the relationship between career plateauing and turnover intentions, the relationship between turnover intentions and teacher preparation, the history characteristics of career plateauing and turnover, and techniques to enrich the quality of teacher work to fight career plateauing. Two forms of career stagnation were described in the review: structural (hierarchical) plateauing and content (job content) plateauing. RESULTS: The analysis of the studies has shown that previous researchers have studied the influence of career plateauing on organizational variables such as turnover intentions, work satisfaction and organizational engagement. Previous studies have shown that work plateauing has been negatively associated with job satisfaction and organizational engagement and positively correlated with turnover intentions. The reviewed literature also found that there are a variety of techniques that can be used to improve the job content of teachers to address the career plateau. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS: The review tried to define the type of plateauing that Kenyan teachers often face. While the reviews have shown that career plateauing is becoming increasingly widespread in various organizations, there has been little research in Kenya especially among secondary school teachers. The study therefore recommended that studies be undertaken to determine the relationship between career graduation, turnover intentions and the decision of the instructor to undertake post-graduate studies in Kenya.
Highlights
Career Stagnation refers to the condition in one's career where there is very little chance of additional hierarchical advancement (Ongori & Angolla, 2009)
The empirical study focused on the forms of career plateauing faced by teachers, the relationship between career plateauing and turnover intentions, the relationship between turnover intentions and teacher preparation, the history characteristics of career plateauing and turnover, and techniques to enrich the quality of teacher work to fight career plateauing
Job material plateauing was an indicator of the intentions of teachers to make a turnover
Summary
Career Stagnation refers to the condition in one's career where there is very little chance of additional hierarchical advancement (Ongori & Angolla, 2009). Teachers with a job content plateau would feel overwhelmed by the repetitive existence of the teaching career and the lack of demanding work tasks Such teachers can enroll in non-educational postgraduate courses with a view to leaving the teaching profession. In Bloland and Selby's (1980) analysis of the literature on teacher turnover, educational attainment contributed little to teacher mobility Their results were partly compatible with the study by Marso and Pigge (1995), which showed that the relationship between the level of education and attrition, whether a teacher completed a two-year teaching college or earned a bachelor's degree, was unrelated to continuing education. Logistic regression has shown that heterogeneous social capital and longevity education – both manifestations of investment goods job orientation – have had major positive effects on shifting roles These findings indicate that a predictable degree of achievement activity may account for a significant theportion of attrition of highly qualified teachers. This research, as one of the goals, aimed to find out if there were teachers who, as a result of the experience of career graduation, enrolled in further studies with a view to leaving the teaching profession
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