Personality Dimensions Towards Entrepreneurship Enculturation Among Graduates in Malaysia

“Self-Employment” as an entrepreneur is a career that must be given attention as an alternative for graduates besides those employed in facing the volatile limited job market and high retrenchment rate. Therefore, responsible parties such as the Malaysia‟s Ministry of Education (MoE) plays an import...

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Main Authors: Muhammad Jazlan, Ahmad Khiri, Mazdan, Ali amaran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Journal of Arts and Commerce 2014
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Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/5211/
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description “Self-Employment” as an entrepreneur is a career that must be given attention as an alternative for graduates besides those employed in facing the volatile limited job market and high retrenchment rate. Therefore, responsible parties such as the Malaysia‟s Ministry of Education (MoE) plays an important role in enculturating entrepreneurship among students in higher education institutions and graduates as a career choice upon completion of study. Hence, this study investigates competency level of entrepreneurship enculturation among graduates in Malaysia specifically those who are selfemployed. The study utilises secondary data collected from Graduate Tracer Study from the year 2007 until 2009 which involves 3062 samples whom are graduates from the public and private higher education institutions in Malaysia and analysed using the Factor Analysis method. The results obtained from this study indicates that character (maturity, personal identity, independent, selfconfidence, knowledge and problem solving ability as well as decision making) and soft skill (problem solving ability, critical and creative thinking, analytical, positive values and communication skills) are two primary personality dimensions in enculturating entrepreneurship for a graduate.
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spelling unimas-52112015-03-19T03:32:07Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/5211/ Personality Dimensions Towards Entrepreneurship Enculturation Among Graduates in Malaysia Muhammad Jazlan, Ahmad Khiri Mazdan, Ali amaran HM Sociology “Self-Employment” as an entrepreneur is a career that must be given attention as an alternative for graduates besides those employed in facing the volatile limited job market and high retrenchment rate. Therefore, responsible parties such as the Malaysia‟s Ministry of Education (MoE) plays an important role in enculturating entrepreneurship among students in higher education institutions and graduates as a career choice upon completion of study. Hence, this study investigates competency level of entrepreneurship enculturation among graduates in Malaysia specifically those who are selfemployed. The study utilises secondary data collected from Graduate Tracer Study from the year 2007 until 2009 which involves 3062 samples whom are graduates from the public and private higher education institutions in Malaysia and analysed using the Factor Analysis method. The results obtained from this study indicates that character (maturity, personal identity, independent, selfconfidence, knowledge and problem solving ability as well as decision making) and soft skill (problem solving ability, critical and creative thinking, analytical, positive values and communication skills) are two primary personality dimensions in enculturating entrepreneurship for a graduate. International Journal of Arts and Commerce 2014 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/5211/1/personality%20dimensions%20towards%20entrpreneurship%20enculturation%20among%20graduates%20in%20Malaysia%20%28abstract%29.pdf Muhammad Jazlan, Ahmad Khiri and Mazdan, Ali amaran (2014) Personality Dimensions Towards Entrepreneurship Enculturation Among Graduates in Malaysia. International Journal of Arts and Commerce, 3 (6). ISSN 1929-7106
spellingShingle HM Sociology
Muhammad Jazlan, Ahmad Khiri
Mazdan, Ali amaran
Personality Dimensions Towards Entrepreneurship Enculturation Among Graduates in Malaysia
title Personality Dimensions Towards Entrepreneurship Enculturation Among Graduates in Malaysia
title_full Personality Dimensions Towards Entrepreneurship Enculturation Among Graduates in Malaysia
title_fullStr Personality Dimensions Towards Entrepreneurship Enculturation Among Graduates in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Personality Dimensions Towards Entrepreneurship Enculturation Among Graduates in Malaysia
title_short Personality Dimensions Towards Entrepreneurship Enculturation Among Graduates in Malaysia
title_sort personality dimensions towards entrepreneurship enculturation among graduates in malaysia
topic HM Sociology
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/5211/
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/5211/1/personality%20dimensions%20towards%20entrpreneurship%20enculturation%20among%20graduates%20in%20Malaysia%20%28abstract%29.pdf