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JOB SATISFACTION OF FEMALE AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION OFFICERS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION (Pages : 16 - 19)
N.S. NURANI, M.H. BHUIYAN, M.S. ULLA, T. BAGUM AND M.J. AZADThe purpose of the study was to determine and describe job satisfaction among the Female Agricultural Extension Officers (FAEOs) under the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE). The DAE jurisdiction all over the Bangladesh was the locale of the study. All the Female Agricultural Extension Officers working at different Upazillas were the population of the study. A structured questionnaire was prepared and was pretested among ten Female Agricultural Extension Officers at DAE Head Quarter. The corrected questionnaires were mailed to 150 Female Agricultural Extension Officers in August 2012. Out of which 65 duly filled up questionnaire were returned back to the researcher by 30 August 2012. Spearman correlation coefficient was chosen to explore relationships between job satisfaction and characteristics of the Female Agriculture Extension Officers. The findings indicated that majority of the respondents (35.38%) had low job satisfaction followed by 33.85% had medium and 30.77% had high satisfaction. From the spearman coefficient analysis it was found that out of nine independent variables only training had significant and positive relationship and other namely professional commitment, job performance, technological knowledge, problem confrontation capacity, motivation, supervision, personality and initiatives to addressing farmers problem had no relationship with job satisfaction of FAEOs of DAE. Download