Evaluation of Factor Affecting Suppliers’ Capacity Building at Isfahan Water and Wastewater Company

This study aimed to Evaluation of Factor Affecting Suppliers’ Capacity Building at Isfahan Water and ‎Wastewater Company in 2019 ‎by descriptive method of survey type and with applied purpose. The statistical ‎population ‎consisted of three groups including employer, ‎consultant, contractor factors, all of whom were ‎reported 50 ‎persons were selected by using census sampling method. The used questionnaire was a researcher-‎made questionnaire developed ‎by the researcher, based on 50 items and 4 components (legal-‎formal, contract, management and financial) ‎based on a 5-point Likert scale. The face, content and construct validity of the questionnaires are confirmed. ‎‎Questionnaire reliability coefficient by use of Cronbach's alpha was (0.711) in ‎the legal-formal dimension, ‎‎(0.889) in the contract dimension, (0.946) in the management ‎dimension (0.871) in the financial dimension and ‎the total reliability of the questionnaire was ‎estimated as (0.961). The findings of the study indicated that ‎the status of the outsourcing process for the ‎suppliers’ capacity building is above average. In addition, in the ranking of ‎effective factors in the increase of the suppliers’ ‎capacity in the outsourcing process, the financial component ‎with the mean rating of (2.78) ‎was the first rank; the legal-formal component with the mean rating of (2.49) was ‎the second ‎rank; contract component with the mean rating of (2.43) was the third rank and management ‎‎component with the mean rating of (2.30) was the fourth rank