JOB PERFORMANCE OF SUB ASSISTANT AGRICULTURE OFFICERS

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to assess the job performance of the Sub Assistant Agriculture Officers of the Department of Agricultural Extension Attempts were also made to describe the selected characteristics and examine their relationships with job perfonnance. Twenty four Sub Assistant Agriculture Officers of twenty lotir blocks of the sadar upazila of Narayanganj District were the population. Their job performance was assessed by self evaluation, supervisors evaluation (Assistant Agriculture Extension Officer

Agriculture Extension Officer) and the client systems. Coefficient of correlation "r" was computed to test the relationship and multiple regression was used to find out the contribution. The overall job performance of the SAAOs indicate that the majority (54%) of the SAAOs had medium performance while 33% had low and 13% had high job perfoniiance. Perfommncc indices of 25 criteria (job items) indicated that the SAAOs did not give balanced emphasis on the different job items and performance on all the job items were considerably below the possible level of the job performance. Computed "r" values indicates that level of education, academic achievement, job facilities, job satisfaction, farmers problem awareness, problem confrontation of SAAOs had no significant relationship with job performance. However, age and service length of the SAAOs had positive relationship with their extent of job performance. In multiple regression analysis level of education, academic achievement and job satisfaction had significant contribution to the job performance. The independent variables accounted for only 62.8% of the total variance. The R 2 statistics indicate that the model as fitted explain 62.8% of the variatbi lit)' in job performance.