The purpose of the study is to determine whether absenteeism is a real concern
amongst the educators in South African schools. Although there are sufficient and
appropriate policies in place, the rate of absenteeism is on the increase on a daily
basis.
Through the literature and investigations, the study tries to unravel the causes of
absenteeism and the solutions thereof.
The study revealed that 66% of the educators abused the current leave policy. Great
majority (64%) of the educators were in favour of the introduction of some form of
incentives and seventy eight percent of the educators wanted the re-introduction of the
accumulation of leave policy. Eighty four percent of the respondents also agreed that
teacher absenteeism contributes to poor learner performance. Workload of educators
was not a major contributing factor in the high rate of teacher absenteeism.
Some of the reasons attributed to absenteeism are depression, redeployment, ill health,
lack of motivation and self esteem, low salary, demoralizing learners and poor working
conditions.
All levels of educators suggested solutions to this ever-increasing problem, which is
becoming difficult to manage. Recognition of least absenteeism, effective
implementation of the policy, strong management team, motivating the staff, offering
fringe benefits, organizing workshops to manage absenteeism and to equip educators
and building team work are some of the noticeable and common solutions suggested
by all levels of educators.
The study recommends the re-introduction of accumulation of leave policy and linking
the school database of educators with departmental database so that on a daily basis
the leave statistics can be l:Jpdated and appropriate actions effected with out delay. / (MBA) North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, 2006
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:nwu/oai:dspace.nwu.ac.za:10394/11493 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | Kunjunjukutty, Thundiyil George John |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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