International Journal of Agriculture Sciences ISSN: 0975-3710&E-ISSN: 0975-9107, Volume 10, Issue 3, 2018 || Bioinfo Publications || 1611 Research Article INVESTIGATING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ATTRIBUTES, JOB PERFORMANCE AND JOB SATISFACTION OF RURAL AGRICULTURE EXTENSION OFFICERS IN UJJAIN DISTRICT OF MADHYA PRADESH SAXENA A.K. AND SHARMA CHANDRIKA* Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Ganj Basoda, 464221, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Adhartal, Jaba lpur, 482004, Madhya Pradesh *Corresponding Author: Email-chandrikasharma1991@gmail.com Received: February 01, 2018; Revised: February 12, 2018; Accepted: February 13, 2018; Published: February 15, 2018 Citation: Saxena A.K. and Sharma Chandrika (2018) Investigating Relationship between Attributes, Job Performance and Job Satisfaction of Rural Agriculture Extension Officers in Ujjain District of Madhya Pradesh. International Journal of Agriculture Sciences, ISSN: 0975-3710 & E-ISSN: 0975-9107, Volume 10, Issue 3, pp.-5127-5128. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.9735/0975-3710.10.3.5127-5128 Copyright: Copyright©2018 Saxena A.K. and Sharma Chandrika. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credit ed. Academic Editor / Reviewer: Dr Avtar Singh Bimbraw, Aparna Jaiswal, Aradhana Kumari Introduction In the early fifties, the need for specific agencies to implement rural development programs in India was recognized and a new administrative unit; development blocks were established as a primary administrative unit headed by a Block Development Officer (BDO), created to assist the departmental dealing with agriculture, horticulture, cooperatives, animal husbandry, village industries etc. the staffing pattern included a number of Assistant Development Officers (ADOs) and Village Level Workers (VLWs), the latter were assigned specific sub-units, normally consisting of a few villages. Being workers of multipurpose nature, it was stipulated that VLWs would spend 75 per cent of their time on functions related to the promotion of improved agricultural practices. Over a period of time, the activities of different development department increased many folds, as did the work of the VLWs. In addition, the VLWs came to be increasingly deployed in activities not connected with agriculture, such as elections, census, family planning etc., which reduced the time devoted to agricultural programmes. Not only this, under the reorganized set up of extension system, the entire responsibility of transfer of technology rests upon the shoulder of Rural Agriculture Extension Officers (RAEOs), previously designated as VLWs. Hence, they should have up-to-date knowledge of all latest developments made in the fields of agriculture along with the keen interest and convincing the farmers for using the latest farm technology. It is not possible for the specialists of agriculture alone to do all jobs effectively, unless they are given proper training in all the concerned branches. The term ‘job’ means a set of expectations applied to an incumbent of a position and ‘job - performance’ is the actual behavior of the incumbent [1]. The performance of an individual at work in an organization depends on his personal qualities and the environment where he works. It is quite logical to expect that those who are satisfied with their job are likely to perform their job in a better way and communication behavior is also positively and significantly related with job performance [2]. In this background, the present study was undertaken with following objectives: 1. To study selected attributes of RAEOs. 2. To assess the job performance and job satisfaction of RAEOs. 3. To study the relationship between selected attributes, job performance and job satisfaction of the RAEOs. 4. To know the training needs and the involvement of RAEOs in tasks other than transfer of technology work. Materials and Methods The present study was conducted by the Krishi Vigyan Kendra Ujjain in the Ujjain district of Madhya Pradesh. The district has six blocks and seven tehsils and a total of 127 RAEOs are deployed at six blocks of the district. Out of these 72 respondents were randomly selected during the in-service training programme at KVK. The data were collected by personal interview, observations, group interview and discussion with KVK functionaries. The collected data were scored, classified, analyzed and presented in the form of percentage in the tables. Correlation of coefficient was employed to calculate the relation between attributes, job performance and job satisfaction of RAEOs. International Journal of Agriculture Sciences ISSN: 0975-3710&E-ISSN: 0975-9107, Volume 10, Issue 3, 2018, pp.-5127-5128. Available online at http://www.bioinfopublication.org/jouarchive.php?opt=&jouid=BPJ0000217 Abstract- The study has been conducted by the KVK Ujjain with 72 respondents to know the attributes of Rural Agriculture Extension Officers (RAEOs), job performance, job satisfaction and training needs of RAEOs. Correlation between attributes, job performance and job satisfaction of RAEOs has also been worked along with the involvement of RAEOs in other work than transfer of technology. The major findings were as majority of respondents belongs to 46-50 years of age group, had higher secondary to post graduation level of education and possess 25-29 years of work experience. Most of them performed both related and allotted work, change work according to instructions from the authority and work as per instructions of the department. Regarding job satisfaction, majority of them were satisfied with allotted and transfer of technology work and were highly satisfied in perception during the field work among the farmer community. Education was found negatively correlated with job satisfaction and had positive correlation with job performance. Age and experience were positively correlated with job satisfaction and negatively correlated with job performance. Among training needs of RAEOs priorities were given to rainfed production technique and organic farming by the RAEOs. Hundred per cent of the respondents agreed on their involvement in election work/photo identity work among the works other than transfer of technology. Keywords- Age group, Correlation, Education, Job performance, Job satisfaction, RAEOs, Transfer of technology.