JOB COMPETENCE AND PERFORMANCE OF WOMEN VETERINARIANS AS EXTENSION OFFICERS IN ANDHRAPRADESH - AN ANALYTICAL STUDY
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2017-12
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SRI VENKATESWARA VETERINARY UNIVERSITY TIRUPATI - 517 502. (A.P.) INDIA
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ABSTRACT:
The present study was undertaken with the main objective of assessing
the "JOB COMPETENCE AND PERFORMANCE OF WOMEN
VETERINARIANS AS EXTENSION OFFICERS IN ANDHRA
PRADESH". Ex-post-facto research design was followed in the present
investigation. A total of 120 Women Veterinary Assistant Surgeons (WVAS)
working in the four zones of the state were selected through proportionate
random sampling method. Thus a total of 15 WVAS from zone I, 23 WVAS
from zone II, 24 WVAS from zone III and 58 WVAS from zone IV were
selected to form the total sample size. The data were collected personally with
the help of a questionnaire and the data were processed, analyzed and
interpreted.
Majority of the respondents were young aged, had an educational
qualification of B.V.Sc & A.H and with a low level of experience in extension
work. Most of the respondents had medium level of self reliance, work
motivation, work load and accountability to clientele. Majority of the women
veterinarians had access to medium level of facilities and resources in their
working areas and with medium level of organizational climate and
communication. On 14 villages, livestock population of 9500 and three
subordinates under the area of jurisdiction and treating 950 cases per month.
The WVAS mostly attended gynecological and extension trainings.
Majority of the women veterinarians possessed medium level of job
competence with medium level of technical knowledge, communicative ability,
self development, empathy, supervision, adaptability, creativity and initiative.
Majority of the WVAS possess medium level of job performance with medium
knowledge of technical services and medium level of extension advisory
services. Most of them also had medium levels of educational activities,
planning of programmes, implementation of programmes, monitoring of
programmes and evaluation of programmes in extension and advisory services
(EAS) of the work they performed.
Correlation analysis between independent and dependent variables
revealed that accountability to clientele, work motivation, organizational
climate, organizational communication and facilities & resources showed
positive and significant relationship with the job competence of women
veterinarians as extension officers. Accountability to clientele, self reliance,
work motivation, organizational climate, organizational communication and
facilities & resources were positively and significantly related with job
performance of women veterinarians as extension officers. Whereas, the
variable i.e. span of control was negatively and significantly related with job
performance of women veterinarians as extension officers.Regression analysis revealed that all the independent variables put together
explained about 22 per cent variation in the job competence of women
veterinarians as extension officers. Organizational climate and communication,
facilities & resources were contributed to most of the variation in the job
competence of women veterinarians as extension officers. With regard to another
dependent variable i.e. job performance, all the independent variables put
together explained about 26 per cent of variation. Age, experience in extension
work, organizational climate and communication were positively and
significantly contributed to most of the variation in the job performance of
women veterinarians as extension officers.
Majority of the WVAS expressed constraints such as ‘inadequate
knowledge on efficient and appropriate methodologies in extension activities,
lack of trained village level extension workers, lack of time for extension
services due to increased documentation work, lack of idea on preparation of
extension information material, larger jurisdictions under control of WVAS,
political interference in implementation of schemes, lack of skill based training
on new farm technologies, lack of training on advances in Veterinary & Animal
Husbandry Sciences, lack of support / faculty in working with other line
department, lack of support from neighboring field veterinarians in organizing
extension campaign, lack of inputs for preparation of client specific audio-visual
aids, lack of availability of scientific literature, inadequate communication by the
department with regard to advances in veterinary practices and lack of transport
facility to remote areas’.
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