Influence of Bureaucratic Leadership Styles on Teacher Turnover

The trend of teachers leaving teaching profession for other jobs or moving to other schools is worrying. The purpose of the study was to examine the influence of leadership styles of principals on teacher turnover in public secondary schools in Kenya. The objectives sought to determine the influence of autocratic leadership style on teacher turnover in public secondary schools and ways of reducing teacher turnover in public secondary schools. This study was guided by the human capital theory. The study population involved 35 principals and deputy principals and 612 teachers. The study estimated the influence of leadership styles of principals on teacher turnover in 10 secondary schools out of 35 public secondary schools in Gem Sub County. From these 10 schools, 10 principals and 183 teachers were sampled for the study and all the 35 deputy principals made the sample size for the study. To obtain the sample of the study, stratified random sampling was used. The study established that teacher turnover was experienced in most of the schools with varying reasons.