Hubungan Antara Faktor Peramal dan Kecenderungan Kerjaya Keusahawanan dalam kalangan ahli Program Tunas Niaga (The Relationship between Predictor Factor Sand Career Inclination Of Entrepreneurship Among Program Tunas Niaga Members)

Wan Mohd Zaifurin Wan Nawang, Ibrahim Mamat, Nor Hayati Sa'at

Abstract


Program Tunas Niaga (PROTUNe) adalah pendekatan pembudayaan keusahawanan untuk pelajar sekolah menengah. Program ini dilihat berpotensi memenuhi agenda Kerajaan bagi menggalakkan generasi muda cenderung memilih keusahawanan sebagai pekerjaan mereka dan memantapkan ekonomi negara pada masa hadapan. Justeru, pihak Perbadanan Kemajuan Ekonomi Negeri Terengganumenjadi agen pelaksana PROTUNe peringkat negeri dengan kerjasama Kementerian Kewangan dan Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia untuk melahirkanpelajar sekolah menengah yang mempunyai kecenderungan ke arah kerjaya keusahawanan. Maka tujuan kajian ini dijalankan adalah untuk mengkaji hubungan antara faktor peramal dan kecenderungan kerjaya keusahawanan dalam kalangan pelajar yang menjadi ahli PROTUNe. Pada tahun 2014, terdapat seramai 593 pelajar yang menjadi ahli PROTUNe dari 21 buah sekolah menengah di sekitar pesisir pantai Negeri Terengganu. Namun begitu, kajian ini hanya melibatkan seramai 197 pelajar dalam kalangan ahli PROTUNe dan dipilih secara rawak mudah sebagai responden. Kajian ini menggunakan kaedah tinjauan iaitu borang soal selidik untuk mengumpul data daripada responden. Data responden dianalisis menggunakan Pakej Statistik untuk Sosial Sains (SPSS) melalui analisis deskriptif dan regresi. Kajian ini mendapati sebahagian besar responden sangat cenderung menceburi kerjaya keusahawanan. Manakala personaliti, kemahiran keusahawanan dan kewangan dikenal pasti sebagai faktor peramal yang mempunyai hubungan dengan kecenderungan responden menceburi kerjaya keusahawanan. Oleh itu, pihak kerajaan mesti meneruskan PROTUNe untuk memupuk kecenderungan pelajar ke arah kerjaya keusahawanan supaya mereka sentiasa dekat dengan perniagaan.

Kata kunci: Faktor peramal; kecenderungan; pelajar sekolah menengah; Program Tunas Niaga; kerjaya keusahawanan

 

Abstract

Program Tunas Negara (PROTUNe) is the entrepreneurship approach for the secondary school students. The program is believed to have the potential to achieve one of the Government’s plan to encourage youth to pursue in entrepreneurships and helps to strengthen the Malaysia’s economy in future. In the meantime, State Economic Development Corporation is to become doer agency for PROTUNe at state level with the partnership of Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Education to produce secondary school students inclined towards entrepreneurship. Therefore, this study aims to examine the relationship between the predictorfactorsand career inclination of entrepreneurshipamong students who are members of PROTUNe. In 2014, 593 students who became PROTUNe members from 21 schools around the coast in Terengganu. However this study only involved a total of 197 students among PROTUNemembersand selected randomly as respondents. This study used a survey method of questionnaires to collect data from respondents. Data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) through descriptive analysis and regression. This study found that most respondents are very inclined to involved in the entrepreneurship career. Meanwhile personality, entreprenuership skill and financial is identified predictor factor that has a relationship with the inclination of respondents to involved in the entrepreneurship career. Therefore, the Government must continue the PROTUNE to nurture the inclination of students towards entrepreneurship careers so that they are always close to the business.

Keywords: Predictive factors; inclination; secondary school students; Program Tunas Niaga; entrepreneurial career


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