Communication Pattern and Leadership Effectiveness of Supervisors of ICDS and Their Contributions to Rural Women
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2012
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UAS, Dharwad
Abstract
Supervisor provides guidance and leadership for the successful
implementation of the objectives. The present study was conducted during the year
2011-2012 in four purposively selected districts namely; Belgaum, Dharwad, Gadag
and Haveri. The research design was ex-post facto with 60 Anganawadi Supervisors
of ICDS. Out of these 30 were graduates of college of Rural Home Science, Dharwad
and another 30 were graduates from other non agricultural Universities. Further 120
Anganawadi workers and 120 rural women were selected to know the contribution of
Anganawadi Supervisors to the beneficiaries.
The main findings revealed that there was significant difference between
Home Science and Non-Home Science Supervisors with regard to Leadership
Effectiveness. Majority of the Supervisors were in 30-40 years of age group and
belonged to nuclear and medium size family i.e., 4-6 members. Home Science
Supervisors (91.67 %) were having experience between 7-8 years and preferred
individual contact methods (93.33%) with colleagues. Home Science and Non- Home
Science Supervisors used group contact methods with the Anganawadi worker and
with rural women used group contact as well as mass contact methods. Overall index
of Leadership effectiveness of Home Science Supervisors was 90.39 per cent while
Non-Home Science Supervisors was 87.17 per cent. For leadership effectiveness,
training is significant for Home Science and Non-Home Science Supervisors while
for communication pattern age, education, experience and trainings were significant
for only Home Science Supervisors. Cent percent of the Anganawadi workers opined
that ‘Supervisor visits Anganawadi unexpectedly’, ‘checks all the registers’, ‘provides
all the supplementary feeding material’. Cent percent of the rural women opined that
‘Supervisor gave necessary information’, ‘conducted training programmes on EDP’
and ‘visited malnourished and grade children houses’. Problems perceived by
Supervisors were ‘higher officers inform them at the end moment’, ‘non-cooperation
with the colleagues’, irregularity in attendance of subordinates’ and ‘cannot take care
of children and elderly person at home’.