educational needs analysis of women entrepreneurs in isfahan

this investigation was performed to determine the educational needs of the entrepreneur women in the city of isfahan, which is applicable in terms of objectives, and descriptive surveying in nature. its statistic population is 91 entrepreneur women in isfahan, that due to the limited population, the controlling sample was considered equal to the population. the tool for collecting data was a questionnaire, the stability of which was calculated as 80% through conbach alpha coefficient in order to test the research questions and to obtain its result, variance analysis and freedman test have been utilized. the result showed that the entrepreneur women’s most important educational needs in the field of marketing include familiarity with international marketing and their least important need is the knowledge of 4 principles of marketing. moreover, the entrepreneur women’s most important educational needs in the field of financial management and accounting is the knowledge of various financial proportions and their least important need used to be the financial provisions from banks and financial organizations. the most important educational need in the field of law, for entrepreneur women, is familiarity with labor law and the least important need is related to insurances and insurance contracts. in the field of production and operations management, the most important educational need of entrepreneur women consist of work and time measurement techniques and their least important needs is about quality standards. finally, in the field of human resources and personnel affairs, the entrepreneur women’s most important educational need is determined to be specification of procurement of employment conditions and their least important need is the methods of personnel motivations. further more, there is no significant difference between their educational needs in terms of service records, as well as their educations.