ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I am grateful to Mr.Aditya Natraj, Programme Manager Pratham Gujarat who gave me the opportunity of working in the organization and extended whatever help I needed for completing this project.
I am extremely thankful to my Reporting Officer Mr. Anuj Sharma, Programme Leader Pratham Kutch who acted as a facilitator throughout the duration of the project and endowed me with his valuable suggestions.
The project would not have completed without the support and cooperation of employees of Pratham. I sincerely thank all the employees of Pratham-- Anjar, Bhuj, Bhachau and Rapar for giving me the required information.
Prof. S N Biswas helped me immensely to give a definite structure and outcome to my study. Last but not the least I am indebted to my faculty guide Prof. Smita Mishra Panda for the valuable guidance and encouragement without which it would have been very difficult for me to take up this project.
Meenakshi Mishra (23075)
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Student’s Name Organization Reporting Officer Faculty Guide Project Title
: Meenakshi Mishra (Roll No. 23075) : Pratham : Mr. Anuj Sharma : Prof. Smita Mishra Panda : Impact of Pratham initiatives on the field level staff in Kutch, Gujarat.
Objective: The objective of the study was to study the impact of Pratham initiatives on the field level staff since they joined the organization Scope of the study: The scope of the study comprised studying the impact of Pratham on the field level staff particularly the supervisors and the taluka incharge functionaries of Anjar, Bhuj, Bhachau, and Rapar of Kutch district. The study confined to variables such as leadership, expressiveness, decision making, leadership, independence, self esteem, risk taking, adaptability after they joined the organization. Methodology: The methodology used for the study was group discussions and informal interviews with the respondents. Use of questionnaire was done for their psychological test and day to day working in the organization. In-depth interviews were conducted with a few key respondents. Sources of data: The major sources of primary data were the questionnaire, the group discussions carried out with the functionaries of Pratham. The secondary data comprised the documents available from Pratham. Major findings: There was a visible change of 18% in self esteem of the staff, 21% change in decision making, 22.7%in risk taking, 22% in independence, 25% in sensitivity of the organization towards its employees, 27% in adaptability of the employees towards the needs and requirements of the organization but there was not much of a change in expressiveness and leadership of the employees which was only to the extent of 7% and 5% respectively. Rapar was the centre in which there was the highest change as compared with the rest of the centres. Limitations of the study: The time limit of two years since Pratham started functioning in Kutch is too short a period to assess the impact. The selfassessment tool can lead to the social desirability error in it. Gujarati language at times was a limitation to understand certain nuances. Recommendations: The recommendations given by me after the entire study, was that the organization should arrange for correspondence courses for its employees so that they obtain graduate degree. Besides there is a need for management development training programmes for them from time to time in the areas related to their work. The field level staff should get more chance of interaction with their superiors. To retain good employees the hygiene issues such as salary, working conditions should not be ignored. Timely feedback
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should be given to the employees so that they can work upon it and improve their performance.
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Acknowledgement Executive summary List of Abbreviations List of Tables List of Figures Organisation Action Component Impact of Pratham initiatives on the field level staff 1 2 3 4 5
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Introduction Background Objective Pratham at Kutch Methodology 5.1 Sample 5.2 Procedure 5.3 Tools/Measures 5.4 Data Processing 5.5 Analysis Plan Respondents’ Profile Attributes 7.1 Self Esteem 7.2 Decision Making 7.3 Risk Taking 7.4 Independence 7.5 Expressiveness 7.6 Leadership 7.7 Communication with boss 7.8 Sensitivity towards employees 7.9 Adaptability 7.10 Attitude 7.11 Need of computer education Change during the two years 8.1 Change across the centres 8.2 Change across sex 8.3 Change across tenure 8.4 Change across age Outcome
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10 Limitations 11 Recommendations 12 Case Studies References Questionnaire 1 Questionnaire 2 Appendix A Organisation Structure B Taluka Level Structure C Reporting Structure D Responsibilities of the Employees E No. of employees in each taluka F Marital status of employees G Percentage of men and women in Anjar Percentage of men and women in Bhuj Percentage of men and women in Bhachau Percentage of men and women in Rapar H Demographic Variables I ‘t’ value and significance of the variables (previous and after) J Mean and Standard Deviation (previous) across the centres K Mean and Standard Deviation (after) across the centres L ANOVA across the four centres M Comparison of Male-Female change of mean and SD (prev) N Comparison of Male-Female change of mean and SD (after) O ‘t’ test for Male -Female comparison (after) P Experience in Pratham across three time frames Q ANOVA of experience in Pratham across three time frames
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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS GTRG
Gujarat Training and Resource Group
PL
Programme Leader
PO
Programme Officer
SUP
Supervisor
TPRP
Training and Pedagogy Resource Person
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LIST OF TABLES S. No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Topic Mean of all empowerment variables Score on various variables (Ela Chavada) Score on various variables (Bhavana Chabhaiya) Score on various variables (Meena Parsattom Goswami Score on various variables (Sumitra Arvindbhai Parmar) Score on various variables (Meena Aboti) Score on various variables (Neeta Varsani) Score on various variables (Ramesh Solanki) Score on various variables (Pallavi Parmar)
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LIST OF FIGURES S. No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Topic Percentage of literates (taluka wise) Change in self esteem Change in decision making Change in risk taking Change in independence Change in expressiveness Change in leadership Communication with boss Sensitivity towards employees Change in adaptability Change in attitude Need of computer education Comparison across four centres
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