The effect of Samyt e-learning on improving the performance of agricultural section CEOs of rural cooperative companies in Fars province

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1 Faculty member of Social Economics Department, Fars Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center

2 Lecturer of Bushehr Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO, Tehran, Iran

3 Education expert of Fars organization rural cooperatives

10.22092/jaear.2023.361120.1929

Abstract

This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of using Samyt e-learning platform on improving the performance of CEOs of rural cooperative companies in Fars province. The integrated management system of Fars Cooperatives (Samyt) was produced and implemented in 2019, among the goals and roles of this system is the management and integration of current information and data at the network level, management and monitoring of the information of network members and personnel, holding the process of meetings electronically. Making the training process, forming and creating an electronic file for people active in the network, holding online meetings of the organization and subsidiary centers, holding online tests for participants in training courses and CEO candidates, educational needs assessment from the network are covered. This research benefited a little from our point of view and is practical in terms of purpose and survey in terms of data collection method. Statistical population consisting of managing directors of rural cooperative companies numbering 360 people, of which 142 people were studied by simple random sampling using Cochran's formula. The data collection tool was a Userlan questionnaire and a researcher-made questionnaire, the reliability of which was calculated using the ordinal theta coefficient (Ɵ=0.75-0.91) and composite reliability (CR=0.74-0.91), and the validity Its form was estimated by using the opinions of academic experts and its content validity based on the construct validity index (AVE=0.5-0.68).

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