Abstract
Effectiveness of service delivery system of public sector organizations like Department of Agriculture (DoA) depends on the job satisfaction of the relevant officers. Research Officers (ROs), Agriculture Officers (AOs), Lecturers (LCs) and Subject Matter Specialists (SMSs) are the key officers in the DoA in Sri Lanka Agriculture Service (SLAgS). It is therefore, a pre requisite to improve the job satisfaction of SLAgS officers in the DoA in order to improve the effectiveness of service delivery system. Further, empirical evidence showed that there was a positive relationship between good governance (GG) and job satisfaction. On the other hand, personal and job related factors are also affect job satisfaction of the employees. This study therefore attempted to identify how job satisfaction can be improved via improving good governance perception and other factors of officers of SLAgS working in the DoA. Pre tested questionnaire was used to collect the data from ROs, AOs, LCs and SMSs. Results of the correlation test showed that there was a positive and significant relationship between job satisfaction and GG perception of SLAgS officers (r = 0.673, p= 0.001). It reveals that the favourable GG perception of the employees increased their job satisfaction. In addition, path analysis was performed to identify the direct and indirect factors which positively or negatively influence the GG perception and job satisfaction of the respondents. According to the Path analysis, there was a direct effect of GG perception to job satisfaction and indirect effect of other factors to job satisfaction through GG perception.
Highlights
Implementing of good governance practices in the public sector organizations are broadly discussed at present
Cronbach's alpha value related to reliability test for the Likert scale of Good Governance (GG) perception was 0.936 (p =o.oo) which means that reliability of scale is excellent
Principle Component Analysis (PCA) was performed to identify the major components of statements which were suitable to measure the GG in the Department of Agriculture (DOA)
Summary
Implementing of good governance practices in the public sector organizations are broadly discussed at present. Mohamad et al, (2014) pointed out that, at present, high expectation and more educated civil society especially who live in the urban area, are expecting high performance by the public sector organizations through good governance. Siddiquee, (2009) showed that public sector organizations have to improve and strengthen the values of good governance regularly in order to perform their excellent service delivery to public. 265 SANDIKA AL ET AL: EFFECT OF GOOD GOVERNANCE TOWARDS JOB SATISFACTION OF AGRICULTURE PROFESSIONALS tive emotional state. It cannot be seen but it can only be inferred. Job satisfaction is a function of many factors which have direct or indirect effect
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