Turnover, Causes and Impacts on the Coordinators’ effectiveness in a Private Educational Center

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the causes of turnover and its impact on the coordinators’ effectiveness in a private educational center in Beirut, Lebanon. In this study, we adopted the qualitative approach, which is also known a s the descriptive analytical approach. We also interviewed five consultants for the sake of testing several hypotheses, namely:

• Turnover affects the ability of consultants to develop new activities
• Turnover will make consultants follow two different types of supervision
• Turnover impacts consultants’ plans whether they were informed that the teachers were leaving or not

The results of this study are as follows:

• Turnover affects the team’s performance and productivity, for new teachers need a lot of time to gain the required experience.
• With turnover, most consultants follow two different types of supervision. The first type is reflected in training novice teachers and providing them with all the information they need to gain experience. The second one is known as the negative type of supervision; it is reflected in giving less importance to old teachers and not helping them develop their capacities.
• With turnover, the center loses competent and veteran teachers who contributed a lot to its prosperity, which in return slows down its progress and development. Indeed, this has the greatest impact on the consultants’ future plans.