Job Satisfaction Level of New Agricultural Employees Working in Agricultural Extension in Salah al-Din Governorate

• Ahmed Sabah Jadallah Al-Jubury & 2 .Ali Ahmed Ghaidhaib Hassan Al-Jubury

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The research aimed to identify the level of job satisfaction among new agricultural employees working in agricultural extension in Salah al-Din Governorate, as well as to identify the level of job satisfaction in the area of satisfaction with job work in agricultural departments in general, and to determine the descending order of research areas according to percentage weight, and to find the correlation between job satisfaction and each of the following studied variables: age, gender, educational attainment, number of years of service, specialization, openness and readiness for change, level of career ambition, educational ambition, desire to attend courses, and renewal and innovation. Fifty percent of the agricultural divisions in the governorate were randomly selected, totaling 28 divisions; thus, the number of divisions subject to the research became 14, including (251) agricultural employees. Subsequently. Subsequently, 50% of the employees in each division were selected using simple proportional random sampling, thus the number of employees subject to the research procedures became (118) employees.The scale and its scores can be set generally, as well as the fields and the date the research was conducted. To achieve the research objectives, the level of job satisfaction of new agricultural employees was measured using (30) items distributed across the research areas. The results showed that job satisfaction was generally high across most research areas, except for salaries and incentives, where the average was also high, and also showed that the level of job satisfaction was high in most research areas, except for the area of job satisfaction regarding salaries and incentives, where its average tended to be high. The results also showed that the descending order of job satisfaction areas was led by the area of the internal work environment. The study recommends the necessity of having a great and high motivation among most employees in Salah al-Din Governorate, as well as the necessity of paying attention to providing financial support in the form of incentives and rewards for creative agricultural employees

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