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Personalities Factors Toward Engineering Entrepreneurial Attitudes

Nowadays, entrepreneurship is the major factor that can drive the world economic growth and create more jobs opportunity in order to reduce the unemployment rate. A healthy and good society can only emerge when countless entrepreneurial activities are carried out continuously. As a developing countr...

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Main Author: Ong, Wei Heng
Format: Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis
Published: 2020
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TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Online Access:http://eprints.utar.edu.my/3722/1/1504146_FYP_Report_%2D_WEI_HENG_ONG.pdf
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spelling my-utar-eprints.37222020-06-30T09:34:06Z Personalities Factors Toward Engineering Entrepreneurial Attitudes Ong, Wei Heng TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Nowadays, entrepreneurship is the major factor that can drive the world economic growth and create more jobs opportunity in order to reduce the unemployment rate. A healthy and good society can only emerge when countless entrepreneurial activities are carried out continuously. As a developing country, Malaysia is focusing on entrepreneurship to restore and stabilize its economy. There are undeniable benefits to be an entrepreneur in Malaysia. One of the benefits of doing so is that it can cope with Malaysia’s rising unemployment rate and bring job opportunities to fresh graduates especially the engineering students. Therefore, entrepreneurial attitude among engineering students in public and private universities will be the title in this study. Past literature has reported that a person’s entrepreneurial attitudes determines whether he or she can successfully set up a new company and participate in business activities. Specific personality traits enable individuals to act like entrepreneurs and conduct entrepreneurial activities which including but not limited to locus of control, risktaking and need for achievement. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the personality factors toward entrepreneurial attitude among engineering students in public and private higher education institution. This study was conducted based on three public and three private universities in Malaysia. The research data were collected by questionnaire survey and the results shows the engineering students with entrepreneurial attitude in public universities are more toward need for achievement traits while the engineering students in private universities are more toward locus of control traits. 2020 Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utar.edu.my/3722/1/1504146_FYP_Report_%2D_WEI_HENG_ONG.pdf Ong, Wei Heng (2020) Personalities Factors Toward Engineering Entrepreneurial Attitudes. Final Year Project, UTAR. http://eprints.utar.edu.my/3722/
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topic TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
spellingShingle TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Ong, Wei Heng
Personalities Factors Toward Engineering Entrepreneurial Attitudes
description Nowadays, entrepreneurship is the major factor that can drive the world economic growth and create more jobs opportunity in order to reduce the unemployment rate. A healthy and good society can only emerge when countless entrepreneurial activities are carried out continuously. As a developing country, Malaysia is focusing on entrepreneurship to restore and stabilize its economy. There are undeniable benefits to be an entrepreneur in Malaysia. One of the benefits of doing so is that it can cope with Malaysia’s rising unemployment rate and bring job opportunities to fresh graduates especially the engineering students. Therefore, entrepreneurial attitude among engineering students in public and private universities will be the title in this study. Past literature has reported that a person’s entrepreneurial attitudes determines whether he or she can successfully set up a new company and participate in business activities. Specific personality traits enable individuals to act like entrepreneurs and conduct entrepreneurial activities which including but not limited to locus of control, risktaking and need for achievement. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the personality factors toward entrepreneurial attitude among engineering students in public and private higher education institution. This study was conducted based on three public and three private universities in Malaysia. The research data were collected by questionnaire survey and the results shows the engineering students with entrepreneurial attitude in public universities are more toward need for achievement traits while the engineering students in private universities are more toward locus of control traits.
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author Ong, Wei Heng
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title Personalities Factors Toward Engineering Entrepreneurial Attitudes
title_short Personalities Factors Toward Engineering Entrepreneurial Attitudes
title_full Personalities Factors Toward Engineering Entrepreneurial Attitudes
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publishDate 2020
url http://eprints.utar.edu.my/3722/1/1504146_FYP_Report_%2D_WEI_HENG_ONG.pdf
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