Assessing Entrepreneurial Attitude Orientations of Graduating Students at University of Gondar

Abstract

Entrepreneurship has become worldwide phenomenon as economic growth across the globe is positively affected by the emergence of new and innovative potential entrepreneurs and their ventures. New businesses, which usually result from entrepreneurial endeavors, play a significant role in job creation and new product developments and thereby improving socio-economic conditions of citizens. Hence, developing entrepreneurial orientations of young people is not a necessity but also a mandatory issue for any country, all the time. Initiated by the same, this study was carried out to assess the entrepreneurial attitude orientations of graduating students at universality of Gondar. A quantitative approach using the EAO scale is used for the measurement of entrepreneurial attitudinal orientation of the respondents based on their own opinions. A set of questionnaire was distributed to 357 respondents and 292 of them were collected back and analyzed using mean, frequency, correlations coefficient, percentages, ANOVA and t-tests. It is found that there is high entrepreneurial attitude orientation of graduating students. Besides it is found that there are no that much demographic influences on EAO scores of students. It is recommended that certain special factors in developing entrepreneurial education among students in the university should be identified and need to be carefully examined.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Attitude Orientation (EAO) Dimensions, University of Gondar (UOG)