The role of agricultural workers performance in the effectiveness of administrative decisions

                                                Abstract

Purpose: The study aims to analyze the role of agricultural workers’ performance with its dimensions (work quality, innovation and creativity, job satisfaction, and employee efficiency) in the effectiveness of administrative decisions with its dimensions (time and speed of administrative decisions, ease implementation of administrative decisions, quality of administrative decisions and acceptance of administrative decisions).

Methodology: the methodology adopted by the study is to identify the study’s problem by examining several questions and concentrating on the nature of the relationship, impact, and variance between the performance of agricultural workers and the effectiveness of administrative decisions. Based on that, a hypothetical scheme was designed for the study, and six main hypotheses emerged from it to verify the validity of the hypotheses; it was subjected to a set of statistical tests.

Method: the study followed the descriptive-analytical method, as the study’s variables and dimensions were described, and the study population was represented by the General Directorate of Agriculture in Erbil and its affiliated departments, it included (235) agricultural engineers and (153) questionnaires were distributed to the respondents, and (144) forms valid for analysis were obtained, and the relationship, impact, and variance by applying the statistical methods through SPSS version 24.

Findings: the study reached several conclusions, most notably the presence of good levels of agricultural workers’ performance, and there is also the existence of the effectiveness of administrative decisions in the

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General Directorate of Agriculture and its affiliated departments in Erbil governorate. The results indicate correlations and influences between the agricultural workers’ performance and the effectiveness of administrative decisions at the macro and micro levels. The results showed the variance of the General Directorate of Agriculture and its affiliated departments in the effectiveness of administrative decisions according to the different levels of focus on the dimensions of the agricultural workers’ performance. Finally, the study also showed no significant variances, meaning that they are statistically significant for the General Directorate of Agriculture regarding the study variables, depending on their different personal characteristics.

Recommendations: the researcher recommended retaining good levels of agricultural workers’ performance because an increase in agricultural workers’ performance can translate into an increase in farmers’ income. Also, the need to maintain the effectiveness of administrative decisions and their dimensions by supporting and enhancing interaction with beneficiaries and providing them with as much information as possible. Continuing to pay attention to agricultural engineers with high skills and accumulated experience and to develop plans and programs to activate the role of agricultural engineers and cadres in a way that makes them more effective. The need to invest in the strong relationship between agricultural workers’ performance and the effectiveness of administrative decisions at the macro and micro levels, direct this relationship towards the best agricultural service and present some recommendations regarding future studies.

Keywords: workers’ performance, effectiveness of administrative decisions, General Directorate of Agriculture in Erbil.