Academic staff job embeddedness: model dimensionality and validation in Tanzania’s universities
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2018-09-21
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Granthaalayah
Abstract
Universities in Tanzania as many others in Africa and the globe are faced with the challenge of
retaining their academic staff. This study examined the dimensionality and generalization of Job
Embeddedness Theory, a promising perspective for understanding employee retention, in the
context of academic staff in Tanzania’s universities. A survey of 314 members of academic staff
from 2 Public Universities and 3 Private Universities was conducted, and Exploratory Factor
Analysis (EFA) and Split Sample Cross Validation were used in determining the appropriate
dimensionality and generalizability of Job Embeddedness Model in the context of study,
respectively. Results indicated that that job embeddedness in the context of academic staff in
Tanzania’s universities is a seven factors model. The results also indicate that seven variables out
of 30 in the model were not stable, hence compromising generalizability of the model in the context
of the study. It was recommended that, since Job Embeddedness Theory is a developing
perspective, the volatile variables should be considered for revision or deletion in the future
studies, before a seven-factor Job Embeddedness model is accepted for generalizability to larger
population of academic members of staff in Tanzania’s Universities.
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Academic Staff, Job Embeddedness, Exploratory Factor Analysis, Model Dimensionality, Cross Validation, Tanzania’s Universities