R Bose¹*, MA Hossain¹, MM Anam², M Hasnat³, H Kabir⁴

¹Department of Agriculture Extension & Information System, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
²Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
³Department of Plant Pathology, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
⁴Department of Agriculture Extension, MoA, Rajoir, Madaripur, Bangladesh

ABSTRACT

The main objective of the study was to determine and describe the performance of SAAO as a professional leader based on selected characteristics of SAAO and to determine the relationship between performance of SAAO as a professional leader and their selected characteristics. The selected characteristics were age, level of education and academic achievement, family size, service length, training home and abroad, mass contact, farmer’s problem awareness, job facilities, job satisfaction, leadership style performance of SAAO as a professional leader. Data were collected from Mirshari, Daudkandi and other Upazila of Chittagong division, Bangladesh. The study provided that age, service length, job facilities and job satisfaction had significant (p≤0.05) positive and family sized had significant negative correlation with the performance of SAAO as a professional leader. Whereas level of education and academic achievements, training home and abroad, media contact, farmers problems awareness and leadership style did not have significant correlation with the performance of SAAO as professional leader. However, SAAO having medium to high level performance serve as a professional leader.  Further studies are needed considering the other factors associated with the evaluation of performance of SAAO as professional leader in Bangladesh.

Key words: sub- assistant agriculture officer, professional leader

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