Achievement motivation in the leadership role of extension agents / by Roya Karami and Maimunah Ismail.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karami, Roya, author.

Maimunah Ismail, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agricultural extension workers.

Leadership.

Agricultural extension work.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is relevant to the practice and theory of agricultural extension. In the current context of significant changes in thinking, policy, and expectations, these changes require extension agents to respond to challenges in developing leadership skills to support and encourage changes at farm and household levels. The book has identified the background, personal, and environmental factors influencing achievement motivation in the leadership role of extension agents. The background factors...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; INTRODUCTION; PART 1 - ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION IN THE LEADERSHIP ROLE: A THEORETICAL CONSIDERATION; CHAPTER ONE - THE LEADERSHIP ROLE IN EXTENSION CONTEXT; CHAPTER TWO - ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION IN THE LEADERSHIP ROLE; CHAPTER THREE - BACKGROUND FACTORS AND ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION IN THE LEADERSHIP ROLE; CHAPTER FOUR - PERSONAL FACTORS AND ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION IN THE LEADERSHIP ROLE; CHAPTER FIVE - ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AND ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION IN THE LEADERSHIP ROLE

PART II - A STUDY IN IRAN: FACTORS INFLUENCING ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION THE IN LEADERSHIP ROLE OF EXTENSION AGENTSCHAPTER SIX - THE STUDY: METHODS, RESPONDENTS, AND ORGANIZATION; CHAPTER SEVEN - ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION IN THE LEADERSHIP ROLE OF EXTENSION AGENTS: EVIDENCE; CHAPTER EIGHT - ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION IN THE LEADERSHIP ROLE OF EXTENSION AGENTS: FUTURE AGENDA

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 26, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6481-1

OCLC:

1237566865