Job Involvement and Job Satisfaction of Women Officers and Their Contributions to the Rural Women
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2012
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UAS, Dharwad
Abstract
The women officers of Karnataka State Department of Agriculture (KSDA)
are the animators, promoters and facilitators for rural women in the food production
of the country. The research study was conducted during the year 2011-12 in 4
purposively selected districts namely; Belgaum, Dharwad, Gadag and Haveri. The
research design was ex-post facto with 60 Women Officers of KSDA. Out of these 30
were graduates of College of Rural Home Science, Dharwad and another 30 were
Agriculture graduates of University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru, Dharwad
and Raichur. Further 120 rural women were selected to understand the contributions
of Women Officers to rural women.
The main findings revealed that there was significant difference between
Home Science and Agriculture women officers with regard to job involvement and
job satisfaction. Majority of the Women Officers were in the middle age group (30-50
years). The Home Science and Agriculture Women Officers belonged to nuclear
family and of medium size family i.e., 4-6 members. Among Home Science Women
Officers 56.67 per cent were having more than 24 years of experience. Overall index
of job involvement of Home Science Women Officers was 79.64 per cent while
Agriculture Women Officers was 76.71 per cent. Sixty per cent of Home Science
Women Officers were having high range of job involvement, while 56.67 per cent
Agriculture Women Officers were having low range of job involvement. Overall Job
satisfaction index of Home Science women officers (76.02%) was slightly better than
Agriculture Women Officers (68.64%). For job involvement, age and experience were
significant for Home Science and Agriculture women officers, while for job
satisfaction, age, education, experience and trainings were significant only for Home
Science women officers.
Cent percent rural women opined about women officers of KSDA that their
work is recognizable and encouraged adoption of all new technologies on fields
(98.33%). Problems perceived by Women Officers were ‘dominance of higher
officers’, ‘misunderstanding and non-cooperation’, ‘lack of technical knowledge of
subordinates’, ‘difficulties of family like care of children’, and ‘stress and tensions of
office which leads to health upset’ are some of them.