Stress if not properly addressed or controlled could have an adverse effect on a person's emotional, physical, and social well-being as well as represent a threat to their health. The aim of this paper was to investigate the organisational stress management strategies used to retain teachers in private secondary schools in Wakiso District, Uganda. The study adopted the cross-sectional survey method of the descriptive design. The target population was 1824 respondents comprising of all the teachers and head teachers from rural and urban schools in District. Wakiso district. A sample size of 317 respondents consisting of 267 teachers, and 50 Headteachers was used in the study. Sample selection of the respondents was by Probability and Non-probability sampling techniques. Questionnaires and interview guide were employed to collect data for this study. In ensuring content validity of the research instrument, the items in the questionnaire were constructed in relation to the literature review of this study. In ensuring content validity, suggestions from educational research experts was sought while reliability was attained through test-retest technique. Data were analysed qualitatively and quantitatively and presented in tables and narrations.  The study found out that according to the respondents’ change of stress perception (86.7%), removing the stressor (80.7%), communication stress management strategy (70.5%) and controlling the consequences of stress (63.6%) were the most commonly used stress management strategies in private schools in Wakiso District. The paper recommends that school administrators should find better organisational stress management strategies by considering the needs and wants of the teachers in order to retain teachers in their schools.