Information Seeking Behaviour of Grass Root Level Extension Workers of the Department of Agricultural Extension in Bangladesh
This study assessed the information searching behaviour of root level extension workers (SAAOs) to explore the relationships between the selected characteristics of the root level extension workers and their information searching behaviour. Chawgacha, Jhikargacha and Jessore Sadar upazila under Jess...
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Agricultural Extension Society of Nigeria
2018-06-01
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| author | MD JAVED AZAD Kh Zulfikar Hossain Hossain Al Mufthi Md Sekender Ali Md Masum Abdullah |
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| description | This study assessed the information searching behaviour of root level extension workers (SAAOs) to explore the relationships between the selected characteristics of the root level extension workers and their information searching behaviour. Chawgacha, Jhikargacha and Jessore Sadar upazila under Jessore district were the study area. All the 70 Sub Assistant Agriculture Officers (SAAOs) in these three upazilas participated in the study. The study revealed that 64.30%of the respondents were frequent information searcher Findings reveal that job satisfaction and aspiration for training had positive significant relationship with information searching behaviour while age, experience of extension work, annual expenditure, and motivation for searching job related information, organizational problem confrontation and technical knowledge had no significant relationship with information searching behaviours. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3a2aa577514d4bef9e56524b40251f3a2022-12-22T03:53:16ZengAgricultural Extension Society of NigeriaJournal of Agricultural Extension1119-944X2408-68512018-06-01222Information Seeking Behaviour of Grass Root Level Extension Workers of the Department of Agricultural Extension in BangladeshMD JAVED AZAD0Kh Zulfikar HossainHossain Al MufthiMd Sekender AliMd Masum AbdullahAssistant ProfessorThis study assessed the information searching behaviour of root level extension workers (SAAOs) to explore the relationships between the selected characteristics of the root level extension workers and their information searching behaviour. Chawgacha, Jhikargacha and Jessore Sadar upazila under Jessore district were the study area. All the 70 Sub Assistant Agriculture Officers (SAAOs) in these three upazilas participated in the study. The study revealed that 64.30%of the respondents were frequent information searcher Findings reveal that job satisfaction and aspiration for training had positive significant relationship with information searching behaviour while age, experience of extension work, annual expenditure, and motivation for searching job related information, organizational problem confrontation and technical knowledge had no significant relationship with information searching behaviours.https://www.aesonnigeria.org/ajm/index.php/jae/article/view/1363 |
| spellingShingle | MD JAVED AZAD Kh Zulfikar Hossain Hossain Al Mufthi Md Sekender Ali Md Masum Abdullah Information Seeking Behaviour of Grass Root Level Extension Workers of the Department of Agricultural Extension in Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Extension |
| title | Information Seeking Behaviour of Grass Root Level Extension Workers of the Department of Agricultural Extension in Bangladesh |
| title_full | Information Seeking Behaviour of Grass Root Level Extension Workers of the Department of Agricultural Extension in Bangladesh |
| title_fullStr | Information Seeking Behaviour of Grass Root Level Extension Workers of the Department of Agricultural Extension in Bangladesh |
| title_full_unstemmed | Information Seeking Behaviour of Grass Root Level Extension Workers of the Department of Agricultural Extension in Bangladesh |
| title_short | Information Seeking Behaviour of Grass Root Level Extension Workers of the Department of Agricultural Extension in Bangladesh |
| title_sort | information seeking behaviour of grass root level extension workers of the department of agricultural extension in bangladesh |
| url | https://www.aesonnigeria.org/ajm/index.php/jae/article/view/1363 |
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