The Relationship Between Modern Managerial Processes in Social Work and the Dimensions of Empowerment Among Divorced Women
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Objective: The present study aimed to determine the relationship between the new management processes of the social work structure and the empowerment of divorced women, based on the study community of Dehloran city.
Methods and Materials: The research method was applied and included in the descriptive and correlational research. The statistical population consisted of all divorced women headed by households covered by welfare in Dehloran city, 120 people in 1402. The sample size of 92 people was selected based on the Morgan table sampling method. The sampling method in the present study was non-random. Information was collected by the questionnaires of modern management processes by Farjad et al. and women's empowerment by Gupta and Srivatava. The data were analyzed in the descriptive section by the mean and standard deviation, and in the inferential section by the Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests, Pearson correlation coefficient, and multivariate regression.
Findings: The results showed that there is a significant relationship between new management processes of social work and empowerment of divorced women in Dehloran city, and new management processes of social work have a significant relationship with decision-making, access to other resources, women's mobility, social work, and gender awareness of divorced women in Dehloran city.
Conclusion: According to the findings, it can be concluded that new management processes in the structure of social work can affect empowerment and its dimensions in divorced women. As a result, it is suggested that social work should benefit from promoting new management processes in order to improve empowerment in divorced women.
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