Career in Entrepreneurship

1. A study to understand the perception about
Entrepreneurship as a Career Option
amongst the students of Ibra College of
Technology
Dr. Manishankar Chakraborty, Faculty Member-Business Studies, Ibra College of Technology
Mr. Syed Sadullah Hussainy, Lecturer, Business, Arab Open University
Sultanate of Oman

2. Contents
• Introduction
• Literature Review
• Discussion
• Objective
• Limitation
• Research Methodology
• Findings
• Conclusion
• References
• Researcher Profile
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3. Introduction
• Career options are plenty for an aspirant.
• Entrepreneurship often has lot of myths.
• Perception about career options is built due to various
reasons.
• Thrust on entrepreneurship by government.
• Need to metamorphose from lost to last career option
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4. Literature review
• Fletcher (1999)-50 percentage of the respondents out of 245
graduates in nine Graduate Enterprise Programme (GEP)
pursuing business start-up courses were females.
• Herderson and Robertson (2000) concluded through their
study the fact that positive images of entrepreneurship as a
career option was negatively affected by lack of identifiable
role models, poor media presentations of individual or small
firms, lack of encouragement from important influencers on
career choices such as teachers and career guidance
specialists.
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5. Discussion
• Can the literature have a relationship with entrepreneurship in
Oman?
• Females more inclined than males?
• Lack of positive image a hindrance for opting for
entrepreneurship as a career option?
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6. Objective
• (1) To understand students perspective on entrepreneurship
as a career option.
• (2) To know the myths associated with entrepreneurship as a
career option.
• (3)To elucidate the reasons that forms the basis of career
related decisions.
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7. Limitation
• 2 Sections out of 19 chosen for the study.
• Time.
• Lack of complete understanding of entrepreneurship by the
respondents.
• On-going study
• Non-usage of statistical tools in analyzing in depth.
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8. Research Methodology
• Simple Random Sampling
• Research Tools-Structured Questionnaire
• Analysis and Interpretation
• Proposed Interventions
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9. Findings- Entrepreneurship as a
Career Preference
60
20 30
30
60
10
20
10
70
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
1st
Preference
2nd
Preference
3rd
Preference
Engineering
IT
Business
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10. Findings-Gender Preference of
Entrepreneurship as a Career
Option
60
40
Entrepreneruship as a Career Option
Females
Males
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11. Findings- Gender and Department
Wise Preference of
Entrepreneurship
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
Males Females
40
60
35
6540
50
Engineering
IT
Business
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12. Findings-Myths
20
10
10
15
25
10
5
5
20
Myth Percentage
Capital
Competition
Absence of Family Business
Lack of Knowledge
Insecurity
Lack of Social Support
Lack of Infrastructure
Absence of Entrepreneurial
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13. Findings-Industry Preference in
Sharqiyah Region
30
40
10
5
5
5 5
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
SharqiyahRegion
Preference
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14. Conclusion
• Females showed more inclination than males.
• Business students, IT and Engineering students in that order
showed preference towards Entrepreneurship.
• Myths are aplenty and needs to be busted.
• Industry preference in line with regional strengths.
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15. References
• (1) Burger, L; Mahadea, D;O'Neill, C. (2004). Perceptions of
entrepreneurship as a career option in South Africa: an exploratory
study among Grade 12 learners. South African Journal of Economic and
Management Sciences. 7 (2), p187-205
• (2) Carter,N;Gartner, W;Shaver, K;Gatewood, E. (2003). The career
reasons of nascent entrepreneurs . Journal of Business Venturing. 18 (1),
p13-39
• (3) Margaret Fletcher, (1999) "Promoting entrepreneurship as a
career option ‐ the graduate enterprise programme", Journal of
European Industrial Training, Vol. 23 Iss: 3, pp.127 – 139
• (4) Roger Henderson, Martyn Robertson, (2000) "Who wants to be an
entrepreneur? Young adult attitudes to entrepreneurship as a career",
Career Development International, Vol. 5 Iss: 6, pp.279 – 287
• (5) Wilson, F., Kickul, J. and Marlino, D. (2007), Gender,
Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy, and Entrepreneurial Career Intentions:
Implications for Entrepreneurship Education. Entrepreneurship Theory
and Practice, 31: 387–406. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2007.00179.x
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16. Researcher Profile- Main and
Corresponding Author
• Dr. Manishankar Chakraborty, A Business Management faculty with Ibra
College of Technology, Sultanate of Oman for the last six and a half years in
addition to more than a decade of experience in academia and industry in the
UAE and India. He has more than 550 publications across journals, periodicals,
leading dailies, conferences, symposiums in the Middle-east and Indian
subcontinent. He is a blogger on education, management
and entrepreneurship and manages two
blogs, www.manishankarthetrainer.blogspot.comand www.manishankarscribbl
es.wordpress.com. He also has a micro-blog, www.twitter.com/manitwitts and
has his social media presence in Behance-
https://www.behance.net/manishankar, Facebook pages on teaching and
learning-
https://www.facebook.com/pages/manishankarthetrainerblogspotcom/2006
29686674250?ref=hland https://www.facebook.com/DrManisPage?ref=hl,
slideshare- http://www.slideshare.net/drmanishankar , YouTube-
http://www.youtube.com/user/drmanishankar12/videos, apart from linkedin,
Google Plus and many others. His research interests includes teaching and
learning, entrepreneurship, business management. He is a regular contributor
of articles to leading dailies in Oman, GCC and Indian subcontinent. He is
actively involved in community service through KnowledgeOman. He can be
reached at emailmanishankar@gmail.com GSM+96898275247
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17. Researcher Profile, Co-author
• Mr. Syed Sadullah Hussainy is an Assistant Professor with Arab
Open University, Oman with prior experiences in Ibra College
of Technology, Oman and New College, Chennai, India. His
research interests includes entrepreneurship and general
management.
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