Management Skills of Extension Managers of State Universities and Colleges in the Bicol Region

The primary purpose of this study was to look into the extension delivery system of SUCs in the Bicol region by determining the professional profile of the extension managers, their management skills along management functions, the significant difference in their management skills, the extension performance of SUCs according to mandate and MFOs, and their training needs along management functions. It was directed towards the development of a training framework for extension managers that will capacitate them in the implementation of extension programs and projects. The mixed method of research was employed in the research which comprised of Descriptive – Evaluative, Comparative – Evaluative, and Descriptive – Developmental methods. The respondents were 123 extension managers of the 8 SUCs in the Bicol region. The study established that the management skills of extension managers were all ‘good’ along the three management functions as assessed by the respondents and that their management skills are not significantly different among the SUCs; there were three trends in the extension performance of 8 SUCs such as constantly improving, continually declining, and with sporadic performance which was due to the extension managers’ professional profile and management skills, SUC levelling, and extension resources; the TNA revealed that extension managers ‘very much needed’ the trainings along monitoring and evaluation in response to their weakest management skills. A training framework was developed that will capacitate extension managers along the functions of management and aims at managing and maximizing the extension resources of SUCs.

Keywords – Training Needs, Extension Performance, SUCs, Bicol.