Investigating the Capability Nongovernmental Organizations (NOGs) Active in the Welfare Purview Mazandaran Province

Subject Areas : Business Management

Ezzatallah Baloui Jamkhaneh ¹ , Mohammad Reza Bagherzadeh ² , Mojtaba Tabari ³ , Fatemeh Roshanbakhsh ⁴

1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Kahmeshahr Unit, Islamic Azad University, Ghaemshahr, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Qaemshahr Unit, Islamic Azad University, Ghaemshahr, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Qaemshahr Unit, Islamic Azad University, Ghaemshahr, Iran
4 - Graduate Student, Department of Public Administration, Islamic Azad University, Qaemshahr Branch, Ghaemshahr, Iran

Received: 2011-12-29 Accepted : 2011-08-08 Published : 2011-11-22

Keywords: Productivity, development, welfare, Non-Governmental Organizations, Empowering,

Abstract :

In this research, we have tried to show whether the situations of the factors effective on empowering the NGOs active in the Welfare Purview of Mazandaran Province is favourable.For this purpose, the independent variables-structural factors, functional factors and contextual factors-were studied, and in order to attain the research goal, we designed a questionnaire and collected the data, which were analyzed by using SPSS software. The research showed that the situation of the factors effective on empowering the NGOs of the Welfare Purview of MazandaranProvince is favourable.  

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