scholarly journals Influence of Profile Characteristics of Village Agricultural Workers on Role Performance in Odisha

2021 ◽  
pp. 98-107
Author(s):  
Anmol Panda ◽  
. Amardeep
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Agricultural Workers ◽  
Role Performance ◽  
Sampling Frame ◽  
Proportional Allocation ◽  
Professional Characteristics ◽  
Medium Level ◽  
Profile Characteristics ◽  
The Village

Aim: To study the personal, psychological, communication and professional characteristics of Village Agricultural workers (VAWs). Study Design: Analytical research design was adopted to use facts or information already available to make a critical evaluation Place and Duration of Study: Nine districts of Odisha were randomly selected from major three revenue administrative divisions Cuttack, Berhampur and Sambalpur between first week of December 2019 to first week of February 2020. Methodology: Village Agricultural Workers (VAWs) of Odisha state served as the population for the study. As many as 728 VAWs in the selected nine districts constituted the sampling frame. After the discussion with the experts and various limitations of the researcher, 40 per cent of the VAWs from the sampling frame were chosen for the study. Thus, the final sample size comprised of 292 (40% of 728) VAW respondents. The method of proportional allocation in stratified sampling procedure was adopted for the selection of respondents. VAWs from each selected district were selected randomly following proportional allocation. Based on the literature, a total of 14 characteristics were taken to document the profile of the Village Agricultural Workers (VAW) who were working in state agricultural department. Results: The results indicated that most of the Village Agricultural workers (VAWs) were middle aged (73.63%), male (66.44%) had formal education up to intermediate level (72.94%). Professional characteristics revealed that almost four-fifths (79.80%) have service experience of 6-14 years and had medium level (74.32%) of training exposure. Most (57.19%) of the VAWs had area of jurisdiction under 9 to 36 villages and majority (87.67%) visiting 3 to 4 times a week. Study found that 78.08 percent of VAWs had high orientation towards extension profession with majority (74.32%) of VAWs perceiving neutral organizational climate in agricultural offices and 64.38 percent are having medium level of organizational commitment. Psychological characteristics revealed that 66.78 percent of VAWs have medium level of self-confidence with moderate job satisfaction (64.38%) and moderate leadership ability (79.11%). Communication characteristics of VAWs shows moderate level of Communication competence of VAWs (64.38%). Role performance analysis shows that majority of VAWs has medium (70.55%) level of role performance. Conclusion: The analysis of these profile characteristics could be crucial in understanding efficiency of state department, agricultural offices and VAWs’ own individual career development. It could be crucial for policymakers in preparing appropriate interventions to enhance role performance of VAWS through training programs.

scholarly journals Profile Characteristics of the Farmers Showing Stubble Burning Behaviour in Punjab

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-39
Author(s):  
Arpit Huria ◽  
Neelam Bhardwaj ◽  
Neelam Basera
Keyword(s):  
Information Seeking ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Proportional Allocation ◽  
Management Measures ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Situational Characteristics ◽  
Medium Level ◽  
Profile Characteristics ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Stubble Burning

Aim: To study the socio-personal, economic, communication, psychological, and situational characteristics of the farmers. Study Design: Descriptive design. Place and Duration of Study: Malwa region of Punjab, between first week of October 2019 to mid-December 2019. Methodology: Multi-stage sampling was followed. Malwa region was selected purposively because of the maximum number of stubble-burning incidents reported in the area during 2018. Within Malwa region, three districts (Bathinda, Sangrur and Ludhiana) were selected randomly. One block was selected randomly from each district and two villages were selected randomly from each selected block. The sample size of 246 was determined using Cochran’s formula and the selection of farmers was based on proportional allocation. Based on the literature, a total of 14 characteristics were taken to document the profile of the farmers who were engaged in the stubble burning behaviour. Results: The results indicated that most of the respondents were middle-aged (65.46%), male (91.06%), had formal education up to intermediate level (21.95%) and possessed semi-medium (5-10 acres) landholding (27.24%). Economic characteristics revealed that 51.46% farmers earned low annual income (<Rs. 50,000- Rs.4,50,000), possessed lager milch animals (98.78%) and were practicing specialized farming (45.93%). More than half (51.63%) of the farmers possessed medium information seeking behaviour. Among psychological and situational characteristics, most of the farmers showed medium levels of innovativeness (49.19%), risk orientation (47.15%) and scientific orientation (57.32%) while high levels of ecological consciousness (45.53%) and economic motivation (42.28%). Most of the farmers (45.93%) showed medium level of awareness towards various stubble management measures. Conclusion: The analysis of these profile characteristics could be crucial in segmenting the farmer respondents and designing target-specific appropriate interventions to tackle the stubble burning behaviour of the farmers.

scholarly journals An Evaluation of Ahmad Dahlan impacting to the leadership in Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-42
Author(s):  
Anton Sebastian ◽  
Stanley Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
The Village ◽  
Muslim Family

Ahmad Dahlan is the fourth child. Born in 1868 to a traditional Muslim family domiciled in Kauman, a religious village in Yogyakarta. The village is located just beside the Sultan Palace of Yogyakarta, and is a well-known village inhabited by Muslims. When he was a child, his name was Muhammad Darwisy. Upon returning from Mecca, he changed his name to Ahmad Dahlan. His father Kiai Haji Abu Bakar bin Haji Sulaiman, was the official Kotib of the Great Mosque of the Sultanate of Yogyakarta. His mother named Siti Aminah was the daughter of Religious Judge Kiai Haji Ibrahim. According to the biographers of Ahmad Dahlan, one of Dahlan's ancestors was the first and most famous guardian of Wali Songo, Maulana Malik Ibrahim. Even the Dutch report said he was Arabic. This report may be true because based on this genealogical background, which was strengthened by his interest in reform ideas, Ahmad Dahlan - before establishing his own organization - joined Jamiat Kheir and later sent his son to study at the school the organization had founded. This paper aims to see to what extent the approach strategy and values used by Ahmad Dahlan to advance Islamic teachings? What is the Government's attitude towards what Ahmad Dahlan has done? Then, how is the author's critical evaluation of Ahmad Dahlan's approach to strategy to education in Indonesia? Application: challenge Indonesian national educators.

scholarly journals A Study on the Relationship of Profile Characteristics with Group Performance of Tribal Farmer Interest Groups (FIGs)

2021 ◽  
Vol 108 (March) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Mathuabirami V ◽  
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Kalaivani S ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Group Performance ◽  
Group Communication ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Group Leadership ◽  
Medium Level ◽  
Profile Characteristics ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The present study aimed to analyze the relationship of profile characteristics with group performance of tribal FIGs. The survey was purposively conducted in Erode district as it contains more number of tribal Farmer Interest Groups (FIGs). A total of five Tribal FIGs were randomly selected from 16 Tribal FIGs belonging to Dhimbam Dhaniya Farmer Producer Company Limited (DDFPCL) and the total sample size was 100. A well-structured interview schedule was prepared and employed to collect the data from the respondents. The findings showed that majority of the respondents were young aged with high school education, female marginal farmers receiving low level of annual income with medium level of farming experience. They had also received medium level of support from institution. The findings of the study also revealed that majority of the members of tribal FIGs had 76.00, 75.00, 73.00, 67.00 and 55.00 percentages of self-confidence, economic motivation, group leadership, group communication and information seeking behaviour respectively.To improve the performance of tribal FIGs, measures should be taken to increase the level of group communication, group leadership and group cohesiveness. This can be increased through organizing regular meetings for members, proper selection of leaders and making the members to understand the importance of group action

Effect of Cynical Individual Factor on the Reverse Mobbing Tendency

2017 ◽  
pp. 276-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Tezcan Uysal ◽  
İ. Alper Gedik
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Sample Size ◽  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Individual Factor ◽  
The Public ◽  
Medium Level

The purpose of this chapter is to reveal the interaction between the cynicism levels and reverse mobbing tendencies of employees under the same organizational climate. In line with this purpose, a study was performed via the survey method on 120 people in a public institute in Turkey. The sample size of the study is limited with the public institute included in the study due to cynicism and reverse mobbing levels vary in each organizational climate. The data obtained from the study were analyzed using the confidence, correlation, multiple regression and Kruskal-Wallis H tests. According to the results of these analyses, a medium-level positive significant relationship was determined between the cynicism levels and reverse mobbing tendencies of the employees. The cynicism dimension that increases the reverse mobbing tendency of the employees most was determined to be the behavioral cynicism with the coefficient of 1.922. As a result, cynicism was added to the literature as a new factor affecting the reverse mobbing significantly.

scholarly journals Examining the relationship between the school climate and motivation of teachers who work in primary and secondary schools

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-14
Author(s):  
Özgül Davulcu ◽  
Hatice Kuluma ◽  
Selva Kaçmaz
Keyword(s):  
School Climate ◽  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Teacher Motivation ◽  
Turkish Republic ◽  
National Education ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Northern Cyprus ◽  
Medium Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Universe

Since this study aims to examine the relationship between the motivation levels of teachers working in primary, secondary and high schools affiliated to the Ministry of National Education in TRNC and their views on school climate, a relational scanning model, one of the descriptive research methods, was used in this study. The universe of this study consists of 3868 teachers studying in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Primary Education and General Secondary Education schools. A total of 208 teachers working in schools in Nicosia, Famagusta, Güzelyurt and Girne were included in the sample group. The data collected with the help of scales in the study were analysed by statistical methods of "Correlation", "Regression", "Kruskal-Wallis H", "Mann-Whitney U" and Spearman correlation techniques. The value of 0.371, calculated as a correlation coefficient between teachers' school climate and teacher motivation, indicates that the relationship between the variables is at a positive and medium level.   Keywords: Organizational Climate, School Climate, Motivation, Teacher

scholarly journals Socio-Economic Characterization of Farmers Based on Content and Frequency of Messages Being Disseminated Through ICT Tools

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 183-190
Author(s):  
Shiva Shiva ◽  
Syed H. Mazhar ◽  
Dipak Kumar Bose
Keyword(s):  
Family Type ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Income Sources ◽  
Medium Level ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
The Village ◽  
Agriculture Development

Socio-economic profile of farmers based on content and frequency of messages being disseminated through ICT tools was studied. ICT plays an important role among the farmers in the village of Pusa block as a source of keeping them updated and connected. The data has been collected from 120 farmers using ICT tools through face to face interview. Descriptive research design was followed for the study. The selection of block and villages was done purposively and randomly as per the ICT users. The study concludes that role of ICTs in agriculture development was influenced by content of information and the respondents age, caste, education, size of family, family type, social participation, family annual income, sources of information and size of land holding, high and medium level of knowledge about agricultural activities among farmers through ICT tools.

scholarly journals Socio Economics Profile of Chilli Growers in District Baramulla (J&K)

2020 ◽  
pp. 135-141
Author(s):  
Quadri Javeed Ahmad Peer ◽  
Tariq Aziz ◽  
Irfath Rashid ◽  
Sushil Kumar ◽  
Sheema Khan
Keyword(s):  
Production Technology ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Vegetable Production ◽  
Sowing Time ◽  
Medium Level ◽  
Distant Market ◽  
Land Holdings ◽  
The Village

The study was carried out during 2018-2019 to know the socio-economic status of the chilli growers, marketing of chilli and constraints faced by the chilli growers in district Baramulla. A sample size of 50 chilli growers was selected randomly from 5 villages of agricultural zone Nehalpora of district Baramulla. The study reveals that majority (60%) of the respondents were in the age group (35-53 yrs). It was found that 30 per cent of the respondents were illiterate. About 45% of the respondents were having farming as the main occupation. As far as annual income is concerned, major source of income of the growers was from agriculture (72 lakhs), followed by horticulture (39.70 lakhs) and vegetables (3.23 lakhs). About 45% of the area was irrigated in the village, 40.87% under orchards, 9.48% under chilli. Majority of the growers used television (74%) regularly as a source of mass media followed by other means of media like internet (30%). Majority (84%) of the growers had occasional extension contacts. About 56 per cent of the respondents were having medium level of scientific orientation followed by low (30%) and high (14%).  As far as the marketing of the chilli is concerned, majority of the growers (56%) sold their crop in local market while only (44%) of the growers sold their crop at a distant market. The reason might be that the growers preferred their local market rather than going for distant places because of the less time available. The major resource constraints in chilli production technology as mentioned by the respondents were unavailability of improved seeds of vegetables (90%) high cost of pesticides (70%), scattered and small size land holdings (60%) and lack of irrigation facilities (40%) Poor marketing facilities (80%), distantly located markets (30%), bad condition of roads (90%), non-remunerative prices (84%) and lack of transportation facilities and high transportation charges (18%) were the major marketing constraints. 90 per cent of the farmers had a constraint of Lack of training on scientific vegetable production technology and Non-availability of facilities of soil testing (80% ), while as 40 per cent had mentioned Lack of knowledge about improved varieties, seed rate and sowing time as other constraint faced.

scholarly journals MOTIVASI DAN PERSEPSI MASYARAKAT PULAU ENGGANO TERHADAP PENDIDIKAN

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-127
Author(s):  
Abdul Rahman Singkam ◽  
Syaiful Rochman ◽  
Fitra Youpika
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Alternative Solution ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Medium Level ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Village

This research aims to analyse the impact of motivation and perception of the society on the quality of education in Enggano island: one of the 111 outermost islands in Indonesia. Despite lacking of supporting facilities is still a main problem of education in Enggano, non-physics (motivation and perception) data are expected to provide alternative solution. Data in this research was collected by using semi-open questionnares to all qualified respondents. 579 quetionnaires in total were fulfilled by six categories of respondents: the students of elementary-, junior- and senior high school, teachers, parents, and the village leaders. Our results show that the motivation of students in Enggano is sufficiently high: 78 out of 100, while the perception of parents and teachers to education is on the medium level: 65 out of 100. The village leaders have graded the quality of education in Enggano on 5.6+0.17 out of 10. Besides of the medium level on perception, a low integrity among the teachers also contributed to the backwardness of eduaction in Enggano.MOTIVATION AND PERCEPTION OF ENGGANO ISLAND COMMUNITIES ON EDUCATION. This research aims to analyse the impact of motivation and perception of the society on the quality of education in Enggano island: one of the 111 outermost islands in Indonesia. Despite lacking of supporting facilities is still a main problem of education in Enggano, non-physics (motivation and perception) data are expected to provide alternative solution. Data in this research was collected by using semi-open questionnares to all qualified respondents. 579 quetionnaires in total were fulfilled by six categories of respondents: the students of elementary-, junior- and senior high school, teachers, parents, and the village leaders. Our results show that the motivation of students in Enggano is sufficiently high: 78 out of 100, while the perception of parents and teachers to education is on the medium level: 65 out of 100. The village leaders have graded the quality of education in Enggano on 5.6+0.17 out of 10. Besides of the medium level on perception, a low integrity among the teachers also contributed to the backwardness of eduaction in Enggano.

Clima organizacional, bienestar laboral y work engagement en una empresa de paqueteria

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 37-47
Author(s):  
Rogelio Vicente Gómez Sánchez ◽  
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Manuel Pando Moreno ◽  
Isabel de la Asunción Valadez Figueroa ◽  
Sandra Margarita Rubio Ávila ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Work Commitment ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Labor Welfare ◽  
Medium Level

The present study is aimed at determining the relationship between the organizational climate with work well-being and work commitment, quantitative, cross-sectional study and simple random sampling n = 72, a confidence level of 90% and a margin of error of 5 % of workers in a parcel delivery company. They are found in the descriptive analysis of the dimensions of the organizational climate (autotomy, trust and support). while workers reported a medium level of work welfare; Regarding the Work Commitment, high levels are identified in its dimensions. From the inferential analysis, moderate and positive correlations were found in equity and labor welfare and; autonomy with Work Engagement. It is concluded that an adequate organizational climate is positively related to the research variables. Keywords: job satisfaction, organizational climate, well-being at work.

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