Factors of Job Satisfaction of Agricultural Scientists and Their Opinions for the Job from the Selected State Agricultural Universities

Abstract

Job satisfaction is not a permanent attitude. Though it is not momentary yet it is only a relatively enduring state which undergoes a change with the needs of the individual, the capacity of work situation in fulfilling these and the individual's own perception of the situation (Roy and Menon, 1974). Happock (1935) defined job satisfaction as ‘any contribution psychological, physical and environmental circumstances that cause a person truthfully say, ‘I am satisfied with my job’. According to Blum and Naylor (1968), job satisfaction is general attitude, which is the result of many specific attitudes in the areas of specific job factors, individual characteristics, group relationship outside the job. Glimmer (1971) has defined job satisfaction as the result of various attitudes, the person hold towards the job, towards the related factors and towards the life in general. Keeping this thing in mind the study was conducted with the sample size of 300 agricultural scientists selected from the three agricultural universities, namely, PAU, GBPUAT and HAU. A structured questionnaire was prepared for collecting the relevant data and filled by the personal interview by making visits to the relevant universities. The data were tabulated and analysed with the help of appropriate statistical tools by using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). It was found from the results of the study that out of 30 determinants of job satisfaction, 17 determinants were non-significant which means that these determinants did not differ as far as the level of job satisfaction mean scores was concerned in the three universities: PAU, GBPUAT and HAU. Those determinants were self-esteem or respect from your colleagues, prestige of job outside department, opportunity for promotion, opportunity of job outside department, pay for job and amount of close supervision and so on, and this might have happened because these were the basic components of job satisfaction required by the agricultural scientists of PAU, GBPUAT and HAU. The relationship of age of respondents with job performance revealed positive and significant correlation in PAU but in GBPUAT and HAU, the relationship were found non-significant. The job performance of respondents of PAU and GBPUAT showed non-significant correlation with their family income whereas in HAU, a negative and significant correlation between respondent's job performance and family income, which revealed that as the income increases, job performance declines. It was revealed from the results that with the proper utilisation of the resources especially which was available in human form could make a difference in the present situations of the Universities ultimately polish the teaching, research and extension activities in such a pious place.