The Role of Schools Co-Operative in Cultivating Entrepreneurship Culture and Mind among Chinese Students

Osman Jusoh

European Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies Articles, 2015, vol. 1

Abstract: Entrepreneurship is very important in the development of human capital and the development of the country. The objective of this study is to explore the role played by the Co-operativeactivities in school in cultivating entrepreneurship culture among Chinese students . Eight dimensions of entrepreneurial tendencies were selected and divided into external and internal factors. The external factors included future orientation , social network and the external environment . The internal factors are motivation, creativity and innovation, self-esteem, locus of controland lastly risk-taking. According to McClelland’sTheory of Motivation Achievement, individuals withhigh potentialenergyandhowthisenergyis releasedand developeddependon the individuals’ strengthor motivationand also the opportunities available. A total of one hundred students from a Chinese national type secondary schools in the District of Manjung , Perak were randomly selected for this study. They were studying in Form 4 and Form 5 who might or might not involve in the school co-operative activities. The questionnaire used was tested with the Cronbach Alpha and the reliability valued was 0.931 . The results showed that the school co-operative activities did not play a significant role in instilling entrepreneurship among Chinese students (r =-0029, p=0.771) p

Keywords: 0.05. Despite coming from a business family; the students did not show any tendency to engage in entrepreneurship which was shown by thet- test resultst (98; p= 0.511)= - 0.660 and therefore p v 0.05. Besides; the studies also showed that there are no cor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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