Teacher Recruitment, Selection and Promotion: The Role of Teachers' Unions in Malaysia

Abstract

The topic reviews the roles of Teachers' Unions in teacher recruitment,selection and promotion and their impacts on the timely graduate teachers as well as to the educational system in general. The objectives of the research were to analyze the current situation in the Malaysia's Ministry of Education from the Human Resource Management (HRM) point of view. It outlines the issues that exist within HRM particularly on the influence of  Teachers' Unions in the formation of Human Resource policy in education on teachers' recruitment channel, selection methods and promotion and its effects on the timely graduate teachers.Special reference was given to the latest's Malaysia education policy- Malaysia Educational Blueprint (2013-2025) which inter alia has included human resource management in its tranformation programme. We argue that Teachers' Unions have their influence in the formation of policy by the Ministry of Education on recruitment, selection and promotion of teachers. How the policy benefits the college-qualified teachers and affect the timely graduate teachers in particular  and the educational system in general.