Organisational climate and performance of Krishi Vigyan Kendras in Meghalaya

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dc.contributor.advisorDevarani, Loukham
dc.contributor.authorDkhar, Sao Evalwell
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-01T06:25:16Z
dc.date.available2023-02-01T06:25:16Z
dc.date.issued2019-09
dc.description.abstractAgriculture, which is generally considered as the backbone of the nation, had seen a drastic change in recent years with respect to production and productivity. These changes have been brought about partly by the role of extension, which is a key investment in agriculture. One of the most important organisation dealing with front line extension system and functioning as knowledge resource centres at district level are the Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVK). Today more than 694 KVKs in the country play a huge part in the development of the capacity of human resources in the grass root agricultural sector through activities of OFTs, FLD and capacity building. Owing to the importance of these organisation, the current study was conducted on 5 functional KVKs of Meghalaya (KVK East Khasi Hills, KVK West Khasi Hills, KVK Ri-Bhoi, KVK West Jaintia Hills and KVK West Garo Hills), with the objectives: i)to study the aspects of organisational climate as perceived by the employees of the KVKs; ii) to measure the organisational performance of different KVKs over the years, iii) to study the clienteles’ satisfaction regarding services of the KVKs and iv)to gather suggestions for improving the services and outputs of the KVKs. Data was collected from the employees of the KVKs, the annual reports of the KVK and the client farmers served by the KVKs. The salient findings of the study were that the average age of the KVK employees was 34.64 years comprising of 21 male and 17 female workers; it was found that combined, the organizational climate of the KVKs of Meghalaya was acceptable and worth celebrating, but individually, some KVKs exhibited problems in the dimensions of career development and reward system. Using Spearman’s Correlation it was found that job autonomy and job stress had statistically significant relationships with organizational climate. The organizational performance of the KVKs of Meghalaya was relatively similar but the highest performance for the five years was recorded for the KVK of West Khasi Hills (3.796), followed by East Khasi Hills (3.552). It was observed that dissemination event was the highest performing output category amongst all the KVKs followed by on-farm testing. There was no relation between performance and organizational facilities. The average age of the clientele farmers was 43.56 years and they were composed of 83 males and 67 female farmers. Clienteles’ satisfaction was found to be relatively high amongst all the KVKs with the Clienteles’ Satisfaction Index being highest in West Khasi Hills (80.33). Clients were dissatisfied with the market assistance aspect and lack of timely provision of trainings and inputs of the KVKs. Clientele Satisfaction was highly dependent on communicational characteristics of the clients like trainings attended, social participation, information seeking behaviour etc. Diagrammatical representation indicated somewhat significant relationship between Organisational Climate, Organisational Performance and Clientele Satisfaction score of the selected KVKs. It was suggested that there should be provision of manpower, benefits and infrastructure to the KVKs and development activities should be more participatory in nature to increase involvement of farmers in them. KVKs should also give more effort toward animal technology demonstrations, professional recognition and research publications. The KVKs should also focus on timely input and marketing assistance to the farmers so that there is a shift from production oriented to entrepreneurship-oriented development.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810193010
dc.keywordsKrishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Organisational climate, Organisational performance, Clienteles satisfaction, Meghalaya agriculture.en_US
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.pages[18], 172p.en_US
dc.publisherCollege of Post Graduate Studies in Agricultural Sciences, CAU-Imphal, Umiamen_US
dc.subAgricultural Extensionen_US
dc.subjectExtension centresen_US
dc.subjectAgricultural developmenten_US
dc.themeAcademic Researchen_US
dc.these.typePh.Den_US
dc.titleOrganisational climate and performance of Krishi Vigyan Kendras in Meghalayaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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