From crisis to progression
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2024-08-28
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The Dutch education system has been experiencing various problems for years due to persistent teacher shortages. Solutions to the persistent problems are being sought at both national and regional levels. The Dutch government has made a strong committed to the development of solutions to the ongoing teacher shortage. It focuses on three aspects: increasing the intake of teachers and school leaders, retaining existing teachers and redesigning education. Of all education sectors in the Netherlands, secondary education is experiencing the biggest problems in terms of teacher shortage. Therefore, this research aims to contribute to exploring causes and recommendations for better teacher retention in Dutch secondary education. To this end, the study focuses on investigating the relationship between perceived job design, teacher' job satisfaction, and teacher' turnover intentions. The central research question of this study is as follows: ββIs there a relationship between job design and teachers' turnover intentions through job satisfaction in secondary education in the Netherlands?ββ
The study was carried out using a quantitative method of research. For this study, the data was collected through the distribution of a questionnaire to teachers working in the Dutch secondary education system. All participating respondents to this study voluntarily consented to participate and were informed about the anonymous and careful handling of the data obtained the final sample sized for this study is 58. SPSS was used to process all data from the data collection process. The data were checked for errors and then processed by performing several statistical analyses.
The research results from these statistical analyses conclude that there are multiple significant relationships between the variables studied. The results of the correlation analysis conducted suggest that there are significant correlations between job design, job satisfaction and turnover intention in this study. The highest correlations were found between job design and job satisfaction, and between job design and turnover intention. Further research was conducted by conducting a simple mediation analysis using PROCESS macro model 4. This showed that job design has a significant relationship with job satisfaction, but not with turnover intention. The relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intention was also found to be significant. These results indicate that the relationship between job design and turnover intention is fully mediated by job satisfaction. By conducting additional simple mediation analyses, the five job characteristics that make up the job design variable in this study were each examined separately for their relationships with both job satisfaction and turnover intentions. The results of these additional analyses suggest that only the job characteristics variety, autonomy and feedback are significant in predicting job satisfaction, that no job characteristic has a significant direct effect on turnover intention, and that the job characteristics autonomy and feedback have a significant indirect effect on turnover intention through job satisfaction.
Based on these research results, a conclusion to the research question was drawn which reads: ''A relationship exists between job design and turnover intention through job satisfaction in secondary education in the Netherlands, this relationship comprises of a negative full mediation effect.''. The presence of job characteristics autonomy, and feedback lead to increased job satisfaction, which in turn results in lower turnover intention. The results of this study provide insight and opportunities for formulating an approach that can tackle the problem of the persistent teacher shortage within Dutch secondary education. The study formulates a number of recommendations for organizations within the Dutch secondary education system for better retention of current teachers. The application of the job characteristics model and the application of the concept of job satisfaction are further developed in the discussion chapter. A number of research limitations are also identified, including the small sample size used and the use of a cross-sectional research design. Finally, the study provides a number of recommendations for possible follow-up studies.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen