Prominent entrepreneur traits for income generating programs performance / Norsuhada Sahedan, Norlida Jaafar and Siti Badariah Saiful Nathan

Income Generating Program is one of the Malaysian government’s interventions in alleviating urban poverty. Training, motivation, mind development courses and in-kind transfers are provided in the programs productive hard-core and poor individuals to encourage them to participate in entrepreneurship...

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Main Authors: Sahedan, Norsuhada, Jaafar, Norlida, Saiful Nathan, Siti Badariah
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Language:English
Published: UiTM Press 2018
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/23195/
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Jaafar, Norlida
Saiful Nathan, Siti Badariah
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description Income Generating Program is one of the Malaysian government’s interventions in alleviating urban poverty. Training, motivation, mind development courses and in-kind transfers are provided in the programs productive hard-core and poor individuals to encourage them to participate in entrepreneurship and other income-generating activities that will reduce their poverty. Despite its poverty reduction success, there still remains failure of some programs in achieving the objective of the programs especially in increasing the beneficiaries’ income level. This concept paper has several objectives, a brief description on issues of income generating programs, reviewing the entrepreneur traits which have been found to be prominent in previous studies, i.e., knowledge and skills, motivation, risk taking and passion which have been selected as correlates in the income level.
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spelling uitm-231952022-07-04T06:03:48Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/23195/ Prominent entrepreneur traits for income generating programs performance / Norsuhada Sahedan, Norlida Jaafar and Siti Badariah Saiful Nathan abrij Sahedan, Norsuhada Jaafar, Norlida Saiful Nathan, Siti Badariah Management. Industrial Management Government business enterprises Income Generating Program is one of the Malaysian government’s interventions in alleviating urban poverty. Training, motivation, mind development courses and in-kind transfers are provided in the programs productive hard-core and poor individuals to encourage them to participate in entrepreneurship and other income-generating activities that will reduce their poverty. Despite its poverty reduction success, there still remains failure of some programs in achieving the objective of the programs especially in increasing the beneficiaries’ income level. This concept paper has several objectives, a brief description on issues of income generating programs, reviewing the entrepreneur traits which have been found to be prominent in previous studies, i.e., knowledge and skills, motivation, risk taking and passion which have been selected as correlates in the income level. UiTM Press 2018-12 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/23195/1/AJ_NORSUHADA%20SAHEDAN%20ADBRIJ%20B%2018.pdf.pdf Sahedan, Norsuhada and Jaafar, Norlida and Saiful Nathan, Siti Badariah (2018) Prominent entrepreneur traits for income generating programs performance / Norsuhada Sahedan, Norlida Jaafar and Siti Badariah Saiful Nathan. (2018) Advances in Business Research International Journal (ABRIJ) <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/Advances_in_Business_Research_International_Journal_=28ABRIJ=29.html>, 4 (2). pp. 9-19. ISSN 2462-1838 (Submitted) https://abrij.uitm.edu.my/
spellingShingle Management. Industrial Management
Government business enterprises
Sahedan, Norsuhada
Jaafar, Norlida
Saiful Nathan, Siti Badariah
Prominent entrepreneur traits for income generating programs performance / Norsuhada Sahedan, Norlida Jaafar and Siti Badariah Saiful Nathan
title Prominent entrepreneur traits for income generating programs performance / Norsuhada Sahedan, Norlida Jaafar and Siti Badariah Saiful Nathan
title_full Prominent entrepreneur traits for income generating programs performance / Norsuhada Sahedan, Norlida Jaafar and Siti Badariah Saiful Nathan
title_fullStr Prominent entrepreneur traits for income generating programs performance / Norsuhada Sahedan, Norlida Jaafar and Siti Badariah Saiful Nathan
title_full_unstemmed Prominent entrepreneur traits for income generating programs performance / Norsuhada Sahedan, Norlida Jaafar and Siti Badariah Saiful Nathan
title_short Prominent entrepreneur traits for income generating programs performance / Norsuhada Sahedan, Norlida Jaafar and Siti Badariah Saiful Nathan
title_sort prominent entrepreneur traits for income generating programs performance / norsuhada sahedan, norlida jaafar and siti badariah saiful nathan
topic Management. Industrial Management
Government business enterprises
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/23195/
https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/23195/