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Organizational Commitment of Agricultural Extension Centers Officials in Some Delta Governorates

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Agriculture and rural economy interactions

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This research aims to identify the extent of the organizational commitment of officials of agricultural extension centers in some of the governorates of the Delta, as well as to identify the relative importance of its three dimensions (emotional, normative and continuous) . To achieve these goals, this research was conducted in the governorates of Gharbia, Dakahlia, Kafr El-Sheikh and Beheira, with the officials of the extension centers, And who numbered (62) officials of agricultural extension centers distributed over the four study governorates as follows (16, 11, 22 and 13) respectively. (The extension centers in the directorates of agriculture), and used some statistical methods to analyze the data, including frequency distributions, percentages, and weight main. The most important research results were as follows: 53.23% of the respondents were 53-59 years old, 85.48% of them had a rural upbringing, 79.03% had their place of residence near the extension center, and 69.8% had a rural origin. 35% of the respondents had a university degree, the majority of respondents 64.51% hade high level of job satisfaction, 58.07% hade high level of motivation to accomplish their mentoring tasks. The results showed that the level of emotional, moral and continuous commitment to about 45%, 42%, and 52% of the respondents, respectively, was high. When explaining the relative importance of the three dimensions of the organizational commitment of the counseling center officials surveyed, the moral commitment came to the fore, then the emotional and finally the continuous commitment with an arithmetic average of 34.74, 33.97 and 30.87 degrees, respectively. The results also showed that The agricultural sector in Gharbia governorate occupies the first place for organizational commitment in its three dimensions, compared to their counterparts in the governorates of Kafr El Sheikh and Dakahlia in the second and third place, While officials of agricultural extension centers in Behaira governorate ranked last for organizational commitment in its three dimensions.

DOI

10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2020.126340

Keywords

organizational commitment, Extension center officials, emotional commitment, Moral obligation, Ongoing commitment

Authors

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Abd El Ghany Mohamed

Last Name

Abd El Dayem Naser

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Agricultural Research Center - Research Institute for Agricultural Extension and Rural Development

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41

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July-September

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16340

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2020-09-01

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2020-08-27

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2020-09-30

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209

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223

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1110-0176

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2536-9784

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53

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Alexandria Science Exchange Journal

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https://asejaiqjsae.journals.ekb.eg/

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Organizational Commitment of Agricultural Extension Centers Officials in Some Delta Governorates

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22 Jan 2023