PERCEPTION OF SCIENTISTS OF ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY TOWARDS ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE
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2016
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AAU, Anand
Abstract
Organizations in the 21st century are facing more challenges
than ever before. These challenges are not unique to any specific
organization or industry, but affect all organizations, regardless of their
structure or size. Organizational climate in particular is constantly being
challenged by changes impacting organizations today (Nair, 2006). To survive
and exceed their competitors, organizations are constantly seeking to improve
their performance. Authors such as Brown and Leigh (1996) thought that the
organizational climate is becoming more important than ever before because
organizations need to ensure that those individuals who add value to the
bottom line will want to stay in the organization and will want to continue
pouring their efforts into their work to the benefits of the organization.
The nature of organizational climate differs from one university
to the other. Organizational climate serves as a measure of individual
perceptions or feelings about an organization. Organizational climate includes
management or leadership styles, participation in decision making, provision
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of challenging jobs to employees, reduction of boredom and frustration,
provision of benefits and personnel policies, provision of good working
conditions and creation of suitable career ladder for academics.
The scientist working in agricultural universities performs three
fold functions namely teaching, research and extension activities. The
contribution of the scientific community is not always steady since there will
be several ups and downs due to multi dimensional personal, socio
psychological and organizational factors. In other words, the academic
contribution of the farm scientists in the field of teaching, research and
extension education is greatly determined by their surroundings, promotional
opportunities, procedures followed for recognizing good work, freedom
enjoyed, superior-subordinate relationship, loyalty to the institution, its
security, respect in the society and so on so forth.
Any organization small or big needs constant studies and
evaluation with a view to ascertain the measures necessary to improve areas
of deficiency, So as to faster rate of growth and development towards
achieving goals. With all these views in mind, the present research study
entitled “PERCEPTION OF SCIENTISTS OF ANAND AGRICULTURAL
UNIVERSITY TOWARDS ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE” was thought
essential to be undertaken with the following specific objectives:
1. To study the profile of the scientists.
2. To develop the scale to measure attitude of scientists towards
organizational climate.
3. To study the organizational climate as perceived by scientists.
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4. To study the organizational commitment as perceived by
scientists.
5. To study the relationship between profile of scientists and their
attitude towards organizational climate.
6. To study the relationship between profile of scientists and their
perceived organizational commitment.
7. To study the problems experience by the scientists in
organizational climate.
8. To seek suggestions from the scientists to improve
organizational climate.
The study was conducted in the Anand Agricultural University,
Anand of Gujarat state. A list of all the scientists doing teaching, research and
extension activities under the Anand Agricultural University of Gujarat state
was obtained from the office of the Registrar, Anand Agricultural University,
Anand. Thereafter, the scientists from each of the activities were selected
randomly in such a manner that there would be proportional to total size of the
scientists in respective activities. In all, 150 scientists comprising 90 Assistant
Professors, 42 Associate Professors and 18 Professors were selected to
serve as the respondents for the study. The data were collected through
structural interview schedule. The “Ex-Post-Facto” research design was
employed for conducting the proposed study.
In order to measure the attitude of the scientists towards
organizational climate, a scale was developed for the purpose was used. The
other dependentand independent variables were measured with the help of
suitable scales and structured schedules adopted by various researchers. The
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collected data were then transferred to master table and analyzed in order to
make the findings meaningful. For analysis of the data, the statistical
measures such as frequency, percentage, mean score, rank order, coefficient
of correlation, stepwise multiple regression and standard partial regression
coefficientanalysis were used.
MAJOR FINDINGS:
The important findings of the study were as under:
1. The study revealed that more than half (58.67 per cent) of the overall
scientists were found in middle to old age group.
2. Slightly less than three-fourth (74.00 per cent) of the overall scientists
had education up to doctoral level.
3. Slightly more than half(52.67 per cent) of the overall scientists had rural
native.
4. Slightly more than half (51.33 per cent) of the overall scientists were
having more than 10 years of total service experience.
5. A vast majority (93.33 per cent) of the overall scientists had annual
income more than ` 5.01 lakhs.
6. A great majority (87.34 per cent) of the overall scientists had medium
tohigh level of job involvement.
7. An overwhelming number(97.33 per cent) of the overall scientists had
high to very high level of job performance.
8. More than half (58.66 per cent) of the overall scientists had medium to
high level of job satisfaction.
9. A vast majority (92.00 per cent) of the overall scientists had low to
medium level of job stress.
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10. A great majority(85.34 per cent) of the overall scientists had medium to
high level of achievement motivation.
11. A great majority(84.66 per cent)of the overall scientists had positive to
highly positive attitude towards their job.
12. Slightly more than half (50.67 per cent) of the overall scientists had
most favourable perception about organizational design.
13. A great majority (83.33 per cent) of the overall scientists had high to
very high level of trust on their staff and university authority.
14. An overwhelming number(90.00 per cent) of the overall scientists were
having good to very good perception about their superiors’ leadership
skill.
15. A vast majority(83.34 per cent) of the overall scientists had good to
very good level of overall communication.
16. A great majority(89.33 per cent) of the overall scientists had favourable
to most favourable perception about their organizational culture.
17. A vast majority(85.33 per cent) of the overall scientistsperceived that
teamwork within the organization was good to very good level.
18. A great majority (85.34 per cent)of the overall scientists were having
high to very high level of motivation from their superiors.
19. A great majority (88.67 per cent) of the overall scientistshad favourable
to most favourable overall perception about their organizational
climate.
20. Slightly more than four-fifth (82.67 per cent) of the overall scientists of
Anand Agricultural University had positive to highly positive attitude
towards organizational climate.
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21. A vast majority (91.33 per cent) of the overall scientists had high to
very high level of affective commitment.
22. A great majority (86.00 per cent) of the overall scientists had medium
to high level of continuance commitment.
23. Nearly three-fourth (72.67 per cent) of the overall scientists had high to
very high level of normative commitment.
24. An overwhelming number of the overall scientists engaged in teaching,
research and extension activity had medium to high to level of overall
organizational commitment.
25. The variables namely age and experience of the scientists had positive
and significant relationship with their attitude towards organizational
climate. Whereas, three variables namely education, native place and
annual income did not exhibit any significant relationship with their
attitude towards organizational climate.
26. Scientists' job involvement, job performance and job satisfaction had
positive and significant relationship with their attitude towards
organizational climate, while job stress of the scientists had exhibited
negative but significant relationship with their attitude towards
organizational climate.
27. Scientists' achievement motivation and attitude towards job had
positive and significant relationship with their attitude towards
organizational climate.
28. There was positive and significant relationship between experience of
the scientists and their perception about organizational commitment,
while native place of the scientists had exhibited negative but
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significant relationship with their perception about organizational
commitment. Whereas, three variables namely age, education and
annual income did not exhibit any significant relationship with their
perception about organizational commitment.
29. Scientists' job involvement, job performance and job satisfaction had
positive and significant relationship with their perception about
organizational commitment. While, job stress of the scientists had
exhibited negative but significant relationship with their perception
about organizational commitment.
30. Scientists' achievement motivation and attitude towards job had
positive and significant relationship with their perception about
organizational commitment.
31. The major problems of organizational climate experienced by the
scientists engaged in teaching, research and extension education
activity of Anand Agricultural University in sequential order were: lack
of willingness towards work (Rank I), lack of accountability among staff
members(Rank II), indifferent attitude of administrators (Rank III),
absence of periodical check and objective assessment of work (Rank
IV), suffering from heavy workload other than mandatory work (Rank
V), lack of provision for international training programme (Rank VI),
lack of conveyance facility for field and institutional visits (Rank VI),
lack of laboratory facilities (Rank VII), non-availability of well-equipped
classrooms (Rank VIII), inordinate delay in proper settlement of service
matters (Rank VIII) and lack of teamwork among staff members (Rank
VIII).
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32. The major suggestions offered by the scientists engaged in teaching,
research and extension education activity of Anand Agricultural
University to improve the organizational climate in sequential order
were: the willingness of the employees towards their work should be
increased(60.67 per cent), employees of the university should not be
engaged in non-mandatory work (59.33 per cent), accountability for all
employees should be fixed (57.33 per cent), regular follow up and
check of assessment of work should be done (54.67 per cent), attitude
of the administrators or superiors should be concerned or sympathetic
(51.33 per cent), permission should be given to the employees for
international training programme (48.67 per cent), employees'
placement should be based on their area of interest (45.33 per cent),
provisions of rewards or incentives should be made for their work
(39.33 per cent) and communication system should be honest at all the
levels to develop trust among staff members (37.33 per cent).
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Keywords
Agriculture, Extension Education, PERCEPTION