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Selected Factors Associated with Achievement Motivation and Job Performance of Agricultural Field Extension Workers (FEWs) in Sukoharjo, Central Java, Indonesia
Thesis Abstract:
The study aimed to determine agricultural field extension workers' (FEWs) achievement motivation and job performance in Sukoharjo, Central Java, Indonesia. It also examined the relationships between selected factors such as individual,job, and work situation characteristics and achievement motivation and job performance.
Respondents were 69 FEWs and four supervisors selected using census records. Data were gathered using questionnaires, and analyzed and interpreted using measures of central tendency and Spearman's Rank-Order Correlation Coefficient.
Most of the FEWs were male and about 34 years old. The majority of them were married, high school graduates, and had no previous experience in agricultural work before joining extension work. They had been working as field extension workers for an average period of 11 years and eight months. Their parents' warmth and encouragement, parents' dominance, and authoritarianism were low. However, their parents' standard of achievement was high. Their attitude toward job was low. but they had high aspirations such as success in work, position promotion and salary increases, happy family, high level of education and good job for their children, and knowledgeability and participation in development for the community. Most of the FEWs perceived their job as having high autonomy, task identity, and good feedback. Nevertheless, ski II variety in their job was low. The quality of supervision and peer-group relationships were good. Most of the FEWs served a large number of farmers, but they did not consider their work climate as problematic. They perceived the quality or quantity of service system from agricultural agencies as poor, however, they received more rewards from their work experience.
Most of the FEWs had a high level of achievement motivation, but they were considered to have a low level of job performance as rated by both supervisors and the FEWs themselves. There was a positive and significant association between FEWs' achievement motivation and their job performance.
Relationships between selected factors showed that parents' standard of achievement, warmth and encouragement, attitudes toward job, aspiration, autonomy, feedback, task identity, supervision, peergroup, reward system, and service system were positively and significantly associated with the FEWs' achievement motivation. Parents' dominance and authoritarianism, work group size, and work climate were found to be negatively and significantly associated with the FEWs' achievement motivation.