Tahap keupayaan usahawan dalam Perusahaan Kecil dan Sederhana di Kuala Terengganu (The entrepreneurs’ capability level in the Small and Medium Enterprises in Kuala Terengganu)
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Perusahaan Kecil dan Sederhana (PKS) merupakan satu insiatif kerajaan bagi mengurangkan kadar kemiskinan di Malaysia dan juga mengurangkan jurang pendapatan antara penduduk di luar bandar dan bandar. Sehubungan itu, keupayaan usahawan dalam melaksanakan perusahaan kecil dan sederhana amat penting dan perlu bagi memajukan sesebuah perniagaan meningkatkan pendapatan mereka. Kemampuan seorang usahawan menguruskan perniagaan boleh diukur melalui keupayaan dalaman yang ada dalam diri mereka dan boleh dizahirkan melalui keupayaan kepimpinan peribadi, keupayaan kemahiran pengurusan dan keupayaan proaktif. Justeru, objektif kajian ini adalah untuk mengukur tahap keupayaan usahawan dalam perusahaan kecil dan sederhana di Kuala Terengganu. Tahap keupayaan usahawan akan diukur berdasarkan kepada tiga domain utama, iaitu keupayaan kepimpinan peribadi, keupayaan kemahiran pengurusan dan keupayaan proaktif. Untuk itu, kaedah survei dengan menggunakan teknik persampelan bertujuan diaplikasikan dalam kajian ini. Borang soal selidik digunakan sebagai instrumen pengumpulan data. Hasilnya seramai 50 orang usahawan perusahaan kecil dan sederhana di sekitar Kuala Terengganu memberikan kerjasama. Analisis diskriptif menggunakan kekerapan, peratus dan purata digunakan untuk menjelaskan hasil dan objektif kajian. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa tahap keupayaan kepimpinan peribadi dan keupayaan kemahiran pengurusan usahawan berada pada tahap sederhana tinggi. Manakala, tahap keupayaan proaktif usahawan pula berada pada tahap tinggi. Impikasinya, keupayaan kepimpinan peribadi dan kemahiran pengurusan dalam kalangan usahawan perusahaan kecil dan sederhana perlu diberi perhatian lebih untuk memastikan perusahaan mereka lebih berdaya maju pada masa hadapan.
Kata kunci: kepimpinan peribadi, kemahiran pengurusan, keupayaan, Perusahaan Kecil dan Sederhana, proaktif, usahawan
Abstract
The Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is one of the Government's initiatives to reduce the level of poverty in Malaysia and also to reduce the income gap between the rural and urban population. In this regard, the entrepreneurs’ capability in executing small and medium enterprises is very important and necessary to advance the business to increase their income. The capability of an entrepreneur to manage a business can be measured through their internal capabilities and it can be manifested through the personal leadership capability, capability of the management skills and the proactive capability. Hence, the objective of this study is to measure the entrepreneurs' capability level in small and medium enterprises in Kuala Terengganu. The level of entrepreneurial capability will be measured based on three main domains, namely personal leadership capability, management skills capability and proactive capability. For that reason, the survey method using the purposive sampling technique was adopted in this study. Questionnaire is used as an instrument of data collection. As a result, a total of 50 small and medium enterprises entrepreneurs around Kuala Terengganu had given their cooperation. The descriptive analysis using frequency, percentage and mean is used to illustrate the results and objectives of the study. The findings show that the level of personal leadership capability and the capability of the entrepreneurs' management skills are moderately high. However, the entrepreneurs' display high level of proactive capacity. The findings imply that the personal leadership and management skills among the small and medium enterprises entrepreneurs need to be given more attention to ensure that their businesses will be more viable in the future.
Keywords: personal leadership, management skills, capability, Small and Medium Enterprises, small and medium enterprises, proactive, entrepreneur
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