THE PERFORMANCE OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AGENTS FOR SOME EXTENSION TASKS AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THEIR SATISFACTION FOR ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE -A FIELD SUDY IN THE CENTRAL REGION OF IRAQ- | ||
| The Iraqi Journal of Agricultural Science | ||
| Article 1, Volume 46, Issue 1, February 2015, Pages 87-94 | ||
| Authors | ||
| M. A. Salman; A. Talib; B. A. Ridha | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The aims of this research are to identifying the level of the performance of agricultural extension agents for some extension tasks and to identifying the satisfaction level of extension agents for the organizational climate in the organization, as well as studying the relationship between the level of their performance of some tasks and their satisfaction with the organizational climate. The populations of the research consist of 223 agricultural extension agents who distributed on 8 provinces in the central region of Iraq and 169 directors of agricultural extension department, sections and centers. A sample of 70% was taken from 6 provinces namely: Babylon, Wasit, Karbala, Al Najaf, Anbar, Diyala. A proportional random sample of 50 % was taken which consist of 54 director and 77agricultural extension agents. A question nary sheet was used for collecting data based on two scales. The first scale used to measure the level of performance of agricultural extension agent which consist of 16 items distributed on 3 sectors( educational tasks 6 items, management of extension programs 4 iems,and executive tasks 6 items, using five scale parameter ( excellent, very good, good, weak and acceptable). The second scale was used to measure the satisfaction of agricultural extension agents of organizational climate which consist of 29 items distributed on 7 sectors:4 items for organizational structure, 3 items for awarding system, 4 items for team work, 6 items for supervision system, 5 items for differently management, 3 items for Organization attendance and 5 items for physical conditions of extension agents, according to five scale parameter: completely satisfactory, satisfactory to some extent, unsatisfactory, completely unsatisfactory. The results showed that some of educational and executive tasks were in a good and acceptable accomplishment, while the management of the extension programs was in a good accomplishment. The supervision system was ranked as the first according to the importance level and agreement of the researchable. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| performance; the tasks of agricultural extension agents; organizational climate | ||
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