Recipient Welfare Empowerment and Sustainable Productive Welfare in the State of Selangor
Participation in productive welfare programmes provide opportunities to welfare recipients in Malaysia to enhance their entrepreneurial skills as a form of selfemployment for individual empowerment and financial sustainability without depending on welfare aid. The challenges for the government ho...
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| Summary: | Participation in productive welfare programmes provide opportunities to welfare
recipients in Malaysia to enhance their entrepreneurial skills as a form of selfemployment
for individual empowerment and financial sustainability without
depending on welfare aid. The challenges for the government however, lies in
sustaining the awareness and interest level of welfare recipients to ensure
sustainable participation in the productive welfare programmes for their
empowerment and self-sufficiency. Hence, this study aims at measuring the
perceived attributes namely, relative advantage, compatibility, complexity,
observability and trialability as well as its effect on participation, adoptercategory
group and the empowerment nature of the programme participants.
A total of two hundred and sixty-six (266) productive welfare participants were
selected non-randomly from all eleven districts in Selangor to assess their effect
of participation in productive welfare using Roger’s Model of Diffusion of
Innovation (DOI). This quantitative study used SPSS for descriptive statistics
and AMOS Structural Equation Model (SEM) to analyse the relationships
between variables to investigate the contribution of the five dimensions of
perceived attributes that influenced participation and adopter-category for the
nature of empowerment outcomes among the participants. The results of this
study showed that, among the unique predictors for perceived attributes,
trialability is the only factor that indicated significant contribution in improving the psychological empowerment among productive welfare participants, whereas
compatibility, trialability and participation have significantly contributed in
predicting economic empowerment. The adopter-category was not a moderator
between perceived attributes and empowerment outcomes. Relative advantage
and compatibility had a mediating effect of participation between perceived
attributes and psychological empowerment whereas only relative advantage had
a mediating effect on economic empowerment. Summarily, the significance of
this study suggests that there is a relationship between perceived attributes,
participation and adopter-category in affecting the sustainability of productive
welfare. Finally, this study provides practical recommendations to programme
participants, policymakers and practitioners of social work to improve the
programme according to adopter-category and viable strategies that can further
help increase the nature of empowerment of the participants in adding values to
the governments productive welfare programme. |
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