농촌지도공무원의 직무만족과 조직환경 및 역할갈등의 관계

The Relationships between Job Satisfaction and Organizational Environment and Role Conflict of Agricultural Extension Educators

The objectives of this study were to measure organizational environment, role conflict and job satisfaction of agricultural extension educators, to verify the differences of organizational environment, role conflict and job satisfaction according to individual characteristics, and to identify the relationships between job satisfaction and organizational environment and role conflict. The data were collected through mailed questionnaires from 300 agricultural extension educators who were sampled by the proportional sampling method and the cluster sampling method all over the country. The statistical techniques used for this study were t-test, one-way analysis of variance, correlation, and multiple regression analysis. The major findings of the study were as follows: (1) The agricultural extension educators had a somewhat negative attitude about their organizational environment, felt weak role conflict, and were not very satisfied with their jobs. (2) Organizational environment was not significantly associated with sex, level of schooling, and field of specialization, but was significantly associated with age, years of work experience, locality level of agency, and position. (3) Role conflict was not significantly associated with sex, age, level of schooling, years of work experience, position, locality level of agency, and field of specialization. (4) Job satisfaction was not significantly associated with sex, age, level of schooling, and field of specialization, but was significantly associated with years of work experience, locality level of agency, and position. (5) Job satisfaction of agricultural extension educators was positively correlated with organizational environment and was negatively correlated with role conflict. They all had statistical significances. (6) As a result of multiple regression analysis, the degree of explanation of organizational environment and role conflict to job satisfaction was about 41%. The more important variable for explaining the job satisfaction of agricultural extension educators was organizational environment.