Policy for teaching beyond the normal workload – lessons from the university of Dodoma (UDOM)

This paper presents the lessons to be learnt from UDOM experience of mounting a teaching beyond the normal workload policy that was instituted as a strategy to cope with the shortage of teaching staff but still upholding quality and stimulate work morale and retention. The work was based on holistic descriptive case study design supplemented by documentary review. Data analysis was accomplished using qualitative and quantitative means. The result has been the establishment of the required policy having an accepted formula to compute monetary incentive for academic staff approved to have taught above the normal workload. It is hereby suggested to other institutions of higher learning to emulate from UDOM experience in order to improve quality of teaching, eradicate grievances among the teaching staff and launch a powerful retaining strategy.