Identifying and Prioritizing the Tasks and Assignments of Faculty Members Affecting Students' Entrepreneurial Intention

Document Type : Original Article

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Ph.D. of Chemistry, Assistant Professor, Department of Basic Sciences, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran

10.48301/kssa.2022.361020.2283

Abstract

The foundation of sustainable development following the growth of human capital has made it necessary to encourage students to become entrepreneurs. Identifying the duties and assignments of the faculty members in the field of entrepreneurship is an important step to improve the entrepreneurial motivation of students. In this research, by conducting a semi-structured interview with 15 faculty members who were selected by a snowball and purposeful sampling, the duties and assignments of a faculty member on students' entrepreneurial intention have been fully identified. After categorizing and coding the extracted evidence, five tasks including "cultural, educational and social" with 4 assignments, "educational" with 4 assignments, "research" with 5 assignments, "executive" with 5 assignments and "personal development" It was determined with 3 assignments for a faculty member. To confirm the findings, a questionnaire with 21 items with a Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.817 was prepared and completed by 265 faculty members, who were selected by random method and Morgan's table. According to the points given and using the Friedman test, the identified tasks and assignments were ranked based on their importance. According to the results, the task of "personal development" was assigned the first priority and the task of "cultural, educational and social" was assigned the fifth priority. The validity of the extracted model was confirmed by a confirmatory factor analysis test using LISREL software. The results of the research showed that the model has a good fit and there is a significant relationship between the latent and observed variables.

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Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 28 November 2022
  • Receive Date: 26 September 2022
  • Revise Date: 10 November 2022
  • Accept Date: 27 November 2022