J. Educ. Manage. Stud., 9(2): 06-10, 2019
with negative health and safety outcomes. The likes
Here, as the title of this thesis is ‘Study on stress
management practices of Krishi Vigya Kendras
functionaries in Odisha’ full attention was given to
find out what management practices being followed
by the respondents. The study viewed stress
management from both the individuals/functionary’s
standpoint and the organization standpoint and
findings are presented in the following
tables/figures.
of job role, job characteristics and attributes, physical
work conditions and technology, performance
feedback and reward system, interpersonal relations
at work, organizational structure and climate, along
with personal problems can cause stress to the
agricultural workers.
The Krishi Vigyan Kendra as a noble concept
developed by Indian Council of Agricultural Research
(ICAR) has
a prime mandate of transferring
agricultural technology from laboratories to farmer’s
field. These Krishi Vigyan Kendra’s are district level
extension organizations. In Odisha state there are 33
K.V.Ks (31 under O.U.A.T and 2 under ICAR) with
around 375 employees.
A) Individual stress coping technique
Simple identification of stress, its symptoms
and consequences is not sufficient unless these are
managed properly at least by the very individual who
suffered. Therefore attempt was made by the scholar
to probe inside the individual stress coping
techniques.
METHODOLOGY
B) Time management
A comprehensive list of all the K.V.Ks operating
under O.U.A.T. were collected from the Directorate
of Extension Education and a total of sixteen K.V.Ks
were selected randomly for studying stress
management practices of their functionaries. Based
on the preliminary survey and the list obtained from
the Directorate of Extension Education, it was
identified that the maximum staff strength of a K.V.K
is 16. Taking the small human resource capacity of
the KVKs during the study time in to consideration,
total enumeration (census method) was used for data
collection. Finally, the first 80 respondents were
considered to be the constituents of the research
sample. Both qualitative and quantitative data were
collected from the sample respondents using mailed
questionnaire. Descriptive statistics such as mean,
standard deviation were used to summarize and
analyze the data on different techniques being
followed by the respondents for stress management.
Time management is an important element for
people who maintain a busy schedule. They need to
prioritize their activities to avoid stress from time
pressure and overtime work. Time management
helps to balance work and leisure time activities
(Kathirvel, 2009). Time management technique in
the KVK functionaries as means of reducing pressure
or stress has been studied as the result is presented
in the Figure 1.
The first and for most point of intervention in
the context of stress management is the time
variable which is the root cause of creating stress to
individual who poorly mange time. However, in the
study area the various approaches to time
management like prioritizing activity by importance
and urgency, knowing daily job cycle, scheduling
activities according to priorities and finally making
list of activities are some of the studied time
management techniques which are acknowledge
always by 77.%, 77.5%, 65% and 52.5% of respondents
selected for the study. By virtue of experience as well
as following the principle learning by doing this
approach of time management was found to be
relevant in the process of tenureship of working by
functionaries in the KVK set up of the state.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Different techniques being followed by the
respondents for stress management
Stress is a fact of life and individuals react to it
in different ways. Some individuals deal with
stressors in
a
positive way with
a
proper
C) Physical exercise
understanding of the phenomenon and its effect
while other individuals or organizations do not.
Taking appropriate action to reduce or prevent
stress is beneficial for both the individual and
organization.
Physical exercises are other acceptable
techniques for stress management which are
followed by the KVK functionaries and reflected in
the table 1. It is observed in this table that very
feasible and practicable exercises are being regularly
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