VIABILITY OF RURAL SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS IN FAYOUM GOVERNORATE

Abstract

The study aimed basically at identifying the viability of rural socialorganizations in Fayoum governorate, estimating gap size between present viabilityand the needed or hoped ones for the studied rural social organizations, estimating the degree of variance of the studied rural social organizations viability, identifying factorscorrelated to and affecting the viability level of the studied rural social organizations inFayoum governorate, identifying factors correlated to and affecting the level of thesocial environment utilization of the studied rural social organizations and finallyidentifying the most important problems facing the studied rural social organizationsviability, and suggestions to solve them from the viewpoints of both the organizationsheads and beneficiaries.Fayoum governorate had been selected to conduct this study. Etsa district hadbeen selected as it is the largest districts according to population and number ofsocial organizations, 85 educational organizations, 45 agricultural cooperativeassociations, 12 village local units and 45 NGOs were selected to represent the samplethe studied social organizations.A number of complementary statistical measures and techniques were utilized toanalyze the collected data including standardized "t" scores, percentages, arithmeticmean, standard deviation, frequencies of, Pearson's correlation coefficient andstepwise multiple regression analysis.the most important findings of the study are as follows:1- The largest percentage of the four organizations had low and moderate levels of totalorganizational viability degree.2- There was significant positive relationship between the viability level of the studiedrural social organizations and each of the following variables: number of villagesserved by the organization, the population of the villages served by theorganization, salience, internal communications, Organizational routine,participation in decision making, selectivity , clarity, the degree of suffering fromthe problems, the attitudes towards Organizational coordination and relationshipsamong workers.3- The findings showed that four of independent variables had significant positiveeffects on the viability level of the studied rural social organizations. Thesevariables were: salience, the population of the villages served by the organization,internal communication and the degree of suffering from the problems. These fourvariables explained about (46.8%) of the total variance of organizational viabilitylevel.