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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 Executive Summary

I Student’s Name : Meenakshi Mishra (Roll No. 23075)

II Organization : Pratham
III Reporting Officer : Mr. Anuj Sharma
IV Faculty Guide : Prof. Smita Mishra Panda
V Project Title : 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 in-
charge 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 self-
assessment 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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their performance.

CONTENTS

Page No.
Acknowledgement i
Executive summary ii
List of Abbreviations v
List of Tables vi
List of Figures vii
Organisation Action Component
Impact of Pratham initiatives on the field level staff
1 Introduction 1
2 Background 2
3 Objective 4
4 Pratham at Kutch 5
5 Methodology 7
5.1 Sample 7
5.2 Procedure 8
5.3 Tools/Measures 9
5.4 Data Processing 10
5.5 Analysis Plan 10
6 Respondents’ Profile 11
7 Attributes 16
7.1 Self Esteem 18
7.2 Decision Making 19
7.3 Risk Taking 20
7.4 Independence 21
7.5 Expressiveness 22
7.6 Leadership 23
7.7 Communication with boss 24
7.8 Sensitivity towards employees 25
7.9 Adaptability 26
7.10 Attitude 27
7.11 Need of computer education 28
8 Change during the two years
8.1 Change across the centres 29
8.2 Change across sex 30
8.3 Change across tenure 31
8.4 Change across age 31
9 Outcome 31

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10 Limitations 36
11 Recommendations 37
12 Case Studies 38
References 50
Questionnaire 1 51
Questionnaire 2 54
Appendix
A Organisation Structure 57
B Taluka Level Structure 58
C Reporting Structure 59
D Responsibilities of the Employees 60
E No. of employees in each taluka 61
F Marital status of employees 62
G Percentage of men and women in Anjar 63
Percentage of men and women in Bhuj 63
Percentage of men and women in Bhachau 64
Percentage of men and women in Rapar 64
H Demographic Variables 65
I ‘t’ value and significance of the variables (previous and after) 66
J Mean and Standard Deviation (previous) across the centres 67
K Mean and Standard Deviation (after) across the centres 68
L ANOVA across the four centres 69
M Comparison of Male-Female change of mean and SD (prev) 70
N Comparison of Male-Female change of mean and SD (after) 71
O ‘t’ test for Male -Female comparison (after) 72
P Experience in Pratham across three time frames 73
Q ANOVA of experience in Pratham across three time frames 74

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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. Topic Page No.

1 Mean of all empowerment variables 17
2 Score on various variables (Ela Chavada) 39
3 Score on various variables (Bhavana Chabhaiya) 41
4 Score on various variables (Meena Parsattom Goswami 42
5 Score on various variables (Sumitra Arvindbhai Parmar) 43
6 Score on various variables (Meena Aboti) 45
7 Score on various variables (Neeta Varsani) 46
8 Score on various variables (Ramesh Solanki) 47
9 Score on various variables (Pallavi Parmar) 48

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 LIST OF FIGURES

S. No Topic Page no.

1 Percentage of literates (taluka wise) 5
2 Change in self esteem 18
3 Change in decision making 20
4 Change in risk taking 21
5 Change in independence 22
6 Change in expressiveness 23
7 Change in leadership 24
8 Communication with boss 25
9 Sensitivity towards employees 26
10 Change in adaptability 27
11 Change in attitude 28
12 Need of computer education 29
13 Comparison across four centres 30

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