Factors Affecting the Work Retention of Private School Teachers under the Diocese of Ratchaburi

Abstract

              The purposes of this research were to study 1) level of factors affecting work retention 2) level of work retention, and 3) factors affecting teacher work retention. The samples were 294 private school teachers under the Diocese of Ratchaburi. The research instrument was a questionnaire with a 5-level estimation scale. The statistics used for analyzing data were mean, standard deviation, and Path Analysis. The research results were found that:

              1. The level of factors affecting work retention was at a high level with the descending average as follows: organizational commitment (X3)  (  = 4.45), followed by work motivation (X2) (  = 4.17),
and job satisfaction (X1) (  = 4.10).  2. The level of work retention was at high level (  = 4.17). When considering the components on a side by side, it was found at high level in all aspects by descending order of mean as follows: workload (Y2) (  = 4.22), manager (Y4) (  = 4.19), personnel (Y1) (  = 4.16) and organizational (Y3) (  = 4.11).

1. 3. There were three direct influencing factors on work retention, each of which influences work retention as follows: job satisfaction (0.34), work motivation (0.50), and organizational commitment (0.16). In addition, it was found to have indirect effects as follows: 1) job satisfaction had an indirect influence through work motivation (0.86), and organizational commitment (0.29) to work retention, and 2) work motivation had an indirect influence through organizational commitment (0.54) to work retention. The job satisfaction, work motivation, and organization commitment positively affects to the work retention, and consistent with the empirical data with statistical values ​​as follows: c2 = 35.08, df = 23, P-value = 0.05, RMSEA = 0.04, P-value = 0.05 c2/df = 1.52 (<2), and RMSEA <05.