Date of Conferral

2020

Degree

Ph.D.

School

Management

Advisor

Branford McAllister

Abstract

Expatriate-teacher turnover disrupts the social and academic lives of students in the international school industry of China. The human resource budgets of these schools are unsustainable and expatriate-teacher turnover significantly affects globalization and international businesses. The rate of expatriate-teacher turnover in the international school industry of China, which results in financial losses and creates anxiety for the students, necessitated an examination of expatriate-teacher turnover in the international school industry of China. This qualitative descriptive phenomenological study of expatriate-teacher turnover in the international school industry of China, was framed by the concepts of the internationalized schools in China and teacher turnover in international schools, to identify the factors that affect expatriate-teacher turnover in the international school industry of China. My qualitative interview transcripts from 20 expatriate-teachers who were current or former expatriate-teachers of the international school industry of China in the past 10 years, was analyzed with NVivo, into codes, which yielded these factors causing expatriate-teacher turnover: internet censorship, staff and student anxiety, lack of approved trade union, competition in the industry, high-income tax, textbook censorship, leadership, and culture shock. This study may contribute to positive social change by identifying the causes of expatriate-teacher turnover, by making the human resource budgets of the international schools in China cost-effective, and by improving the social and the academic lives of the students in the international school industry of China.

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