Job embeddedness and retention: a study among teachers in private Islamic schools in Malaysia
Malaysia is in the midst of embracing the Industrial Revolution 4.0 and is working hard to strengthen the educational sector so that the future human capital possesses high ethical values and morality. Term like internet of things become the buzzword of the day but still, Islamic education provid...
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Kuala Lumpur Malaysian Consumer and Family Economics Association
2018
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| Summary: | Malaysia is in the midst of embracing the Industrial Revolution 4.0 and is working
hard to strengthen the educational sector so that the future human capital
possesses high ethical values and morality. Term like internet of things become
the buzzword of the day but still, Islamic education providers particularly private
Islamic schools in Malaysia are still struggling to survive and coupled with high
turnover rates among the teachers, they have difficulty in producing high quality
Islamic education. They are in dire needs of teachers who are willing to stay and
sacrifice for students. Despite the high turnover rate, there are teachers who are
still willing to stay and hence, the study was conducted to investigate the reasons
for the teachers to stay. Job embeddedness theory was used in this study because
it was able to uncover the reasons why employees stay in organizations and thus,
the study examined the relationship between job embeddedness and employee
retention among teachers in private Islamic schools in Malaysia. Three hundred
and ninety school teachers in private Islamic schools participated in the study and
the data was collected using survey forms. The findings revealed that fit to
organization, fit to Islamic school practices, fit to community, links to school and
organization-related sacrifices were significantly related to employee retention.
The findings contribute significantly to the school administrators. Islamic education
aims to nurture the young people as the future leaders. High turnover rates could
negatively affect the goal of Islamic education and thus, the administrators and
the policy makers have to give attention to the pressing issue especially in the era
of technological sophistication. |
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