Employees of the public sector (government owned organisations) , including teachers, are preparing to take industrial action to protect their pay, retirement age and pensions. Over the bank holiday weekend the NAHT (Head Teachers' Union) voted to poll members on taking industrial action if the proposed pension changes are enforced.
"They say changes being proposed will mean they will have to work longer for less money and that, on average, a head teacher will lose about £100,000 from their pension."
The BIG questions:
1) What might happen to the motivation levels of teachers and head teachers if the changes to pensions and pay freeze do go ahead?
2) Good pensions and an early retirement age have been an important factor in recruiting teachers as the basic pay is not as good as could be earned in similar jobs in the private sector. What might the impact of these changes be on teacher recruitment?
Neil Hardy
ReplyDelete1) motivation will decrease due to these massive cuts.
2) it will be harder to recruit teachers as the job description is not as appealing.
1) The motivation levels of the teachers and head teachers will decrease because physical needs come in first in maslows theory. Also because their pay has been frozen they may also feel less important and so their esteem will go down, this is also another important part of maslows theory.
ReplyDelete2) These changes may mean that less people will be interested in going into teaching for their job. In the current economic climate, normal people will need more money as the price of living has increased, and so the fact that the pay has decreased and the money has decreased for retirment, less people will want to work that job and they are more likely to go for jobs with better pay/pay increases and a lower retirement age and a continuing pension.
Megan, ellie and marcus(:
the motivation willl decreass and `people will start going on strike
ReplyDeletethe job decription will not be atractive
slade
then teachers won't feel rewarded for working longer hours when they get less pay.
ReplyDeleteheadteachers will lose £100,000 of their pension and won't be able to have an early retirement because they will need to work longer to make up for that money which is lost and will reduce the number of headtechers to be in the future.
KiSH, Chloe
1) Teachers and headteachers' motivation levels decrease as they won't be receiving as much money as they should deserve to be, which would make them feel undervalued, and that their reward for working for that whole period of time will be almost nothing.
ReplyDelete2) Less people will apply to become teachers as the pay won't be worth their time working and there will hardly be a pension to support them when they're older. :D
1) the motivation levels of the teachers and head teachers will stop because their physiological needs will not be good meaning the workers will not be satisfied, this may be because they dont have enough money to cover their needs such as food and clothing.
ReplyDelete2)their could be a big impact, this could be beacuse people writing to appyly for the job might then stop because the pay wont be good, meaning they will want to apply for another jobs.
1) If the changes to pensions and pay freezes go ahead then the teachers may lose motivation as they would not feel valued or appriciated because they think they are being underpayed.
ReplyDelete2)These changes might mean that less people want to be teachers so education may suffer as a result. Schools may be more felxible about who they eploy because of the lack of choice so the teachers employed may not be fully qualified or good enough. It may be good for the people who want to be teachers because there may be less competition for jobs if less people think that beign a teacher is a viable profession.
Lizzieeee
1- Teachers may stop working as hard as they could feel cheated by the government, their motivation will drop and this could be down to the first stage in maslows theory (about basic needs) - they could feel that their basic needs aren't being met. They may also drop as they could be forced into options such as striking which would be against many of their best wishes.
ReplyDelete2- Teacher recruitment may drop as they will lose interest down to the fact they are lowering the pensions and this is a major factor of why people become teachers, especially as the pay freeze may also kick in meaning they could be much better off in an alternative career.
Jake
1) Their motivation levels will drop as they know that they will have less money in the future therefore may not be able to carry out plans they had made. With the pay freeze they may feel that there is no point in working hard as no matter how hard they work, they will not get a pay rise so why work hard?
ReplyDelete2) It will be harder to recruit teachers for the public sector as less teachers will be willing to work in the public sector and more will aim to work in the private sector, in private schools, as they can get better pay and their pension and retirement age may be no better than if they were working in the public sector. Also, it may become harder to recruit teachers as less people will train to be teachers if they know that the basic pay is below what they could get in another job and they will no longer get the perks of an early retirement age or a good pension.
Katie
1) The motivation levels of the teachers will drop because their physiological needs may not be satisfied. This is because they may not have enough money to pay for their basic needs like food and clothing. Also, they probably won't want to work longer hours for less money as they feel it would be unfair which may result in a strike or similar action.
ReplyDelete2) The amount of people wanting to apply to become teachers may drop because the basic pay is not as good as other jobs in the private sector so they may go for another job instead because they will earn more money. Therefore, they will be able to satisfy their physiological needs better.
Becky
Motivational levels of teachers and the head teacher may fall. This is because they lose £100,000 from their pension meaning they may not be able to achieve some of their dreams when they retire which they have been working for. Also because they have to work longer for less will make them even less motivated to work because they will feel as if they arent getting paid for what their working.
ReplyDelete2) recruitment may become harder because other jobs could offer a better pension because of the changes made. This means their could be a decrease in teachers.
Jem
ALISHA&chloe;
ReplyDelete1- The motivation levels of the teachers will go down because they are working as hard as they can but recieving less money than they would have been before when they were also doing their best. MASLOW..
2- The impact fo these changes may be that people wont want to become teachers knowing that they have to work for longer, recieve less and still work to their best ability. Therefore schools may bevome short staffed when there previous teachers become retirment age (finally) and they have noone to replace them.
teacher's may be more motivated because the new pension scheme is that it is the average salary over your life instead of your final salary as it is now, so at first teachers and other public sector workers who have been there for a long time and took time to get promotions will be annoyed but new workers coming in will be a lot more motivated because they realise that they need to get their pay as high as they can as early as they can, and the way to do that is to work hard and show you should be at a higher level and get higher salaries, so that there are less years at lower pay meaning the average will not drop as much.
ReplyDeleteif the pension scheme changes then there could be a lot less teachers being recruited, unless they do it for the good of the kids
Dom
1. the teachers and head teachers would lose a lot of motivation because now their pay and pension has gone down then they have nothing to work hard for
ReplyDelete2. it might become more difficult to employ teachers because people want a job that pays well and gives a good pension but if the pay has gone down then they would be looking at different occupations
ALISHA;
ReplyDeletechloe didnt work with me..
1)the motivation levels of headteachers wil decrease as their pensions are being changed,this means the teachers are working towards less money for themselves. money is only a short term motivator though but still effort in their work will decrease.
ReplyDelete2)it might be more dificult to employee teachers as the pay is going down so people might prefer a job in the private sector which is willing to pay more money.
1. The motivation levels of teachers and head teachers would reduce by a large fraction because of the reason of their physiological needs being reduced. When they will be given a lower wage/salary they will not be able to purchase all of their day to day running needs. However when it is done and decided upon, motivation levels perhaps might even rise in fact because as this is an average decrease, workers would have to work more and be motivated even further to reach their intended goals and aims.
ReplyDelete2. The initial decision and thought to make would be that many more teachers would like to go private because they would then be recieving a higher salary than the teachers of the public sector. Good pensions and an early retirement age have been an important factor in recruiting teachers as the basic pay, but even so with the current economical struggle would the general public like to pay extra for the education which their children are recieving. Could this have a greater effect then just at a glance? I believe that teacher recruitment in the public sector would stay the same as in the private sector only a minority would be in service because only a minority of the general public would pay for their children education because of the economical struggle.
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Takbir Ahmed
They may feel undervalued and therefire less motivated to work hard, especially if reaching position of head teacher still means they earn £100,000 less than they should. They will not work to achieve more if their hard work is rewarded by nothing but a pay freeze.
ReplyDeleteThere will be less teachers if people can earn money in the private sector.
Dani
1) the motivation of teachers will decrease because they are working longer but being paid less. this will affect children's education.
ReplyDelete2) recruitment will decrease because no one wants to work hard for no money when there are better jobs out there will similar pay.
1) If this happens, then teachers are more likely to take their job less seriously, providing that they earn less money- gives them a reason not to work as hard as they may be working at the momment. In Maslow's theory, it states the basic needs that a human needs, one of these is earning anough money to live, seeing as the pension has decreased, this means less money for the retired teachers to live on...
ReplyDelete2) Teachers are less likey to be recruited as it would be more benifical to for them to seach for jobs in the other sectors. The quality of teachers would also decrease, as teachers with prehaps, a better education would rather go looking for more rewarding work.
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