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How do personality features and skills affect entrepreneurship?
How do personality features and skills affect entrepreneurship?

Author(s): Abdolreza Karimpoor Malakshah
Subject(s): Economy, Social psychology and group interaction, Personality Psychology, Psychology of Self
Published by: Visoka škola za poslovnu ekonomiju i preduzetništvo
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Personality Traits; Entrepreneurial Skills; Personality Skills; Employees

Summary/Abstract: Current research aimed to review impact of personality and psychological features on entrepreneurship skills of employees. The research has an applied objective where data were gathered in cross-sectional form. Statistical population is all employees in the Tejarat Bank in one of western cities of Iran who are 250 persons. To determine the size of the sample according to Morgan table, 152 people were determined. Sampling method is simple random sampling. Two questionnaires were used to collect data. To measure validity of the questionnaire, formal validity was used and to measure reliability Cronbach Alpha coefficient was used applying SPSS version 19. R=0/860 was calculated for questionnaire of personality and psychological features and 0/843 was obtained for entrepreneurship skills questionnaire. For data analysis, descriptive and inferential statistics (Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and binomial test) were used. The results of the research indicate that personality and psychological features of employees are effective in their entrepreneurship skills in working place. So, at the end some suggestions were presented for improving entrepreneurial skills of employees.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 84-92
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English