Job performance of the agricultural extension workers in Tanga Region: Tanzania
1984
Mende, J.J.
The purpose of this research was to determine the degree of relationship, if any, between job performance and major characteristics of a 'farmer contact' agricultural extension worker in Tanga region of Tanzania. Determination of the correlation between job performance scores and 15 independent variables were done using the Spearman rank correlation coefficient, and a t test was done to determine if the correlations were significant at the 5 % level, or better. In addition, a forward stepwise analysis was done in order to select the best combination of the independent variables which could be the predictors of job performance. The findings indicated that 4 characteristics: initiative, knowledge of technical subject matter, knowledge of the extension process, and cooperation with others in rural development, were each very highly correlated with job performance, beyond the 1 % level. Age and tenure were each negatively correlated with job performance (P 0.05). There was no statistically significant correlation with the other characteristics (P 0.05). The combined influence of the personality/attitude traits and professional characteristics explained 83.5 % of the job performance. Respondents felt they were highly deficient in extension-type subject areas and agricultural subject matter areas
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