Diagnosing of the Micro and Home Enterprises Plans of the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee in Golestan Province

Introduction: The success of employment plans requires identifying and strengthening strengths and opportunities and, identifying and removing weaknesses and threats in those plans. This research has been conducted to diagnose the micro and home enterprises plans of the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee IKRC in Golestan Province. Methods: This was an applied survey method research. The statistical population of the study consisted of all one thousand-nighty-one clients of IKRC in micro and home enterprise plan in 2018, in Golestan province, three hundred twenty-one of whom were randomly selected as the research sample. The research instrument was a questionnaire and its face validity was determined by reviewing the views of the faculty members and the experts of the IKRC. The content validity of the research tool was determined using content validity ratio and content validity index, in which the value of the content validity ratio was eighty-eight hundredths and the value of the content validity index was eighty-four hundredths. The reliability of the questionnaire by calculating the Cronbach's alpha of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats was 0.889, 0.894, 0.818 and 0.837, respectively. Data were analyzed using the SWOT method with SPSS22 and Excel software.  Results: The most important strength was using the workforce of other family members and creating a family work background; the most important weakness was insufficient information and technical skill of the clients to start the business; the most important opportunity was providing free technical and vocational training and the most important threat was imports of similar products at a lower price.  Conclusions: The micro and home enterprise plans of the IKRC in Golestan Province have some weaknesses and some opportunities, henceforth; we need to utilize some strategies that seek to overcome the weaknesses of the plan to find new opportunities.