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EFFECT OF ENTREPRENEURIAL TRAINING PROGRAM ON ENTREPRENRUIAL INTENTION OF POTENTIAL ENTREPRENEURS. (THE BUSINESS MANAGEMENT STUDENTS)

K.YOGALAKSHMI

Volume: 5 Issue: 3 2015

Abstract:

Entrepreneurship is the driving force of socio-economic development of a nation. The objective of the present study is to understand the entrepreneurial intention among the students and factors affecting this intention and to study the effect of entrepreneurial training program on their entrepreneurial intention. To achieve the purpose of this study forty entrepreneurs were selected from Chidambaram town of cuddalore district, Tamilnadu, at random and their age ranges from 30 to 65 years and all of them are health and normal. They are divided into two groups and designed as control group (students have not underwent training) and treatment group (students underwent entrepreneurial training program) twenty entrepreneurs each. The treatment group underwent a four weeks of entrepreneurial development training program. The control group was restricted from any form of training intervention. The primary data was collected through a well structured questionnaire before the training period and after the training completion. The collected data was analyzed using analysis of variance (ANCOVA). The results of the study showed that EDP training can be an effective training intervention to enhance entrepreneurial intention of entrepreneurs.

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