ROLE PERFORMANCE AND JOB COMPETENCE OF FIELD LEVEL DAIRY AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY PERSONNEL IN SOUTHERN KERALA
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Date
2022
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ICAR-NDRI, KARNAL
Abstract
Kerala is one among the highly dairy progressive states in India and has immense
potential in the livestock production. Factors like role performance, job competence and
job satisfaction of the field level personnel play significant role in augmenting the
developmental activities in the concerned departments thereby reaching out to the
farmers. Therefore, the present study was undertaken in southern zone of Kerala
purposively and three districts namely Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam and Alappuzha
from this zone were selected randomly. Six blocks from each district were selected in
random for the study. Major respondents of the study included Dairy Farm Instructors
(DFIs) and Livestock Inspectors (LIs). Data were collected from 147 respondents for
ascertaining role performance by different rating techniques and from 63 respondents for
the other objectives of the study by interview schedule. DFIs had good role performance
ascertained by self-rating (72.22% of DFIs), superior rating (66.68% of DEOs) and
beneficiary rating (93.33% of farmers) respectively. LIs exhibited outstanding
performance by self-rating (80% of LIs) and superior rating (58.33% of VSs) and
possessed good performance by beneficiary rating (100% of farmers) respectively. As
per the different ratings, their activity wise role performance was found. In the study,
majority (72.22 %) of DFIs and 82.22 per cent of LIs expressed the tasks under various
parameters of job as extremely important and highly important respectively and it was
revealed that more than half (61.11%) of DFIs and most (93.33%) of LIs had possessed
high level of knowledge/skills in performing the tasks. Competencies differed
significantly at 5% level of significance under these components. With regard to job
satisfaction, majority (94.44%) of DFIs and all the LIs (100%) were highly satisfied in
their respective jobs. The study explained the significance of the parameters under job
satisfaction of DFIs and LIs at 5% level of significance. Feedback documented from the
respondents indicated constraints in their job environment and expressed that they had
clear perception about improving their competencies in job as they had clearly
demarcated the need for the same. They had also suggested possible measures for
improvement of the job competency. Hence, suitable steps should be taken by the
concerned departments to fulfil their requirements which would enrich the development
of the sectors.