Assessment of Entrepreneurial Traits among Undergraduate Students of Clothing, Textile and Interior Decoration

Adetoun Adedotun Amubode,Olajide Rahman Goriola

doi:10.5539/ijms.v7n4p94

Abstract

The philosophy of Clothing, Textile and Interior Decoration in the department of Home Science and Management is to produce graduates that are adequately equipped with comprehensive theoretical knowledge and practical skills required to succeed in any enterprise within their career. Yearly, thousands of graduates are turned out with no jobs and the few that are self-employed experience multi-facet challenges that inhibits business success and discourage motivation to establish a business. This study assessed the Entrepreneurial Personality Trait of final year students of Clothing, Textile and Interior Decoration prior to business start-up and their future plan after graduation. All the final year students were used for the study. Questionnaire was used to gather the data which was designed using Granger and Sterling Personal Assessment Scale. The result shows that about one-third of the students (32.14%) have plan to be self- employed after graduation, 14.29% want to travel abroad, 28.57% want to further their academic career while 25% want to secure job in either private or public sector. The average Personality Score of the Students is 74.06 (Mid-to-Lower Range) indicating that the students need to spend more time to develop their entrepreneurial skills so as to succeed in a socio-economic challenging environment.

Highlights

Before the advent of colonial government, unemployment was a rare phenomenon in Nigeria, because the people were highly entrepreneurial and productively engaged
The philosophy of Clothing, Textile and Interior Decoration in the department of Home Science and Management is to produce graduates that are adequately equipped with comprehensive theoretical knowledge and practical skills required to succeed in any enterprise within their career
The import substitution industrialization model showed defective in the area of economic growth; it led to a diversion of the country’s attention away from any serious exploitation, evaluation and development of its own raw material base; shows lack of capacity to develop indigenous technology needed for supporting indigenous business sector; inability of the nation to engage in the production of producer goods; perpetuation of a state of low –level skills within the indigenous industrial sector; encourages perpetual dependence of the country’s economy on foreign entrepreneurs for the solution of its socioeconomic problems and discourages the production and utilization of appropriate grade of scientist, engineers, technicians, craftsmen and other skilled people needed for domestic technological take-off” (Benson, 2005)

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Before the advent of colonial government, unemployment was a rare phenomenon in Nigeria, because the people were highly entrepreneurial and productively engaged. “The statism model ensures that government assumed the dominant role as producer and controller in the economy at the expense of private sector initiatives. The consequence of this model is the creation of an environment in which the Federal government became the major source of patronage and the desire for public office became a matter of life and death. The import substitution industrialization model showed defective in the area of economic growth; it led to a diversion of the country’s attention away from any serious exploitation, evaluation and development of its own raw material base; shows lack of capacity to develop indigenous technology needed for supporting indigenous business sector; inability of the nation to engage in the production of producer goods; perpetuation of a state of low –level skills within the indigenous industrial sector; encourages perpetual dependence of the country’s economy on foreign entrepreneurs for the solution of its socioeconomic problems and discourages the production and utilization of appropriate grade of scientist, engineers, technicians, craftsmen and other skilled people needed for domestic technological take-off” (Benson, 2005)

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