Yönetim ve Ekonomi (Dec 2018)
Girişimcilik Eğitiminin Gençlerin Girişimcilik Motivasyonlarının Gelişimindeki Rolü (The Role of Entrepreneurship Education in the Improvement of Entrepreneurship Motivations of Young People)
Abstract
The main aim of this study is to examine the relationships between entrepreneurship motivations and entrepreneurship education by taking into consideration the pre-education situations of the young entrepreneur candidates who are studying at a university. In the research conducted with a quantitative approach, the one-group “pre-test post-test” type of the “pre-experimental” research design was utilized. In the study, data were collected by a questionnaire before and after the education according to convenience sampling from students taking entrepreneurship education at Aksaray University. The collected 1340 paired utilizable participant data were analyzed by factor analysis, paired sample t-test and one-way ANCOVA (analysis of covariance) techniques. The results revealed that the entrepreneurship motivations of the young participants studying at the university were gathered in two sub-dimensions as emotional and rational motivation and, that there was a statistically significant relationships between entrepreneurship education and these two sub-dimensions of entrepreneurship motivation. Accordingly, it was determined that the average scores of the rational entrepreneurship motivations of the participants after entrepreneurship education showed a more positive change and improvement; However, it was found that there was a relative negative change or decrease in the average scores of emotional entrepreneurship motivations after the entrepreneurship education. In the study also after the entrepreneurship education, it was determined that there were positive changes or improvements in the average scores of both motivational dimensions of the employees who had previously worked in a job compared to those who did not work and, that there were positive changes or improvements in the average scores of both motivational dimensions of his / her father employees in the private sector and in his own business compared to those of his / her father employees in the public sector. The results are thought to include remarkable clues in terms to reveal the importance of entrepreneurship education and types of entrepreneurship education for entrepreneurship motivations of young people.
