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Examining the Effects of Workplace Characteristics on Empowerment of the Agricultural Extension Employees in New Valley Governorate, Egypt

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Agricultural extension

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This research aimed to: 1) explore the workplace characteristics profile (WCP) of the agricultural extension organization in New Valley Governorate from viewpoint of the extension personnel, 2) identify the level of employees' empowerment perceived by extension personnel, and 3) ascertain the impact of workplace characteristics profile on extension personnel's empowerment. The scale developed by Prien et al. (2009) was used to measure WCP, as well as an adaptation of the questionnaire used by Menon (2001) was used to measure the employees' empowerment. Data were collected using a questionnaire form during January to February 2021 from a sample of 25 persons representing 37.3 % of the total number of extension personnel (extensionists and agricultural supervisors) in New Valley Governorate. Frequencies, percentages, mean, Pearsons' correlation and Step-wise regression analysis were used for data analysis and presentation. Findings revealed that the overall score of respondents' perceptions of the workplace characteristics profile amounted to 221.15, which represents 73.72% of the total score, the score of the overall mean of empowerment reached 58.55 representing 78.07% of the total score. With regard to the impact of WCP on employees' empowerment, results indicated that there are 35 correlations among WCP's factors and empowerment subscales and there are four factors of WCP (Task Standardization, Standardization of Roles, Controlling Harassment, and Communication) explain between10.1% to 57.5% of the variance on employees' empowerment subscales.

DOI

10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2021.171645

Keywords

Workplace characteristics profile, Job Empowerment, Agricultural Extension, New Valley, Egypt

Authors

First Name

Ahmed M.

Last Name

Diab

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Affiliation

Department of Rural Society and Agricultural Extension, Faculty of Agriculture, New Valley University, Egypt

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a.diab@nvu.edu.eg

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0000-0002-5762-344X

First Name

Dina H.

Last Name

Emam

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Affiliation

Department of Rural Sociology & Agricultural Extension,Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt,

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dina.emam@agr.cu.edu.eg

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Volume

42

Article Issue

2

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23719

Issue Date

2021-04-01

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2021-04-20

Publish Date

2021-06-30

Page Start

413

Page End

422

Print ISSN

1110-0176

Online ISSN

2536-9784

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ASEJAIQJSAE_Volume 42_Issue 2_Pages 413-422.pdf

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https://asejaiqjsae.journals.ekb.eg/article_171645.html

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Alexandria Science Exchange Journal

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

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Examining the Effects of Workplace Characteristics on Empowerment of the Agricultural Extension Employees in New Valley Governorate, Egypt

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22 Jan 2023