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Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Job satisfaction and organizational stress of the extension personnel are very crucial for improving their performance and thereby achieving organizational effectiveness. Thus the need of the hour in human resource management are reducing organizational stress and increasing job satisfaction of the extension personnel with a view of improving their efficiency through motivation. Hence, the present study has made an attempt to understand the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational stress of women extension personnel which is highly important in the context of increasing feminization of agriculture. For the present study, the research design adopted was Ex-post-facto. Multistage random sampling technique was adopted for the study. A total of 210 women extension personnel were selected as sample for the study including sixty women agricultural officers, 120 women agricultural assistants and 30 VFPCK women extension personnel. To measure the job satisfaction a Likert-type scale was developed following summated rating method. Organizational role stress was measured using a Likert-type scale developed by Udai Pareek. Self-report measures were used to obtain the data. Spearman’s bivariate correlation for job satisfaction and organizational role stress for different groups of women extension personnel from State Department and VFPCK showed that there was a statistically significant relation between these two variables at 1per cent level of probability. There was a strong and negative correlation between job satisfaction and organizational role stress of women extension personnel.