Entrepreneurial Mentorship and Business Education Students’ Development in Nigeria

N George Owhoeke

doi:10.7176/jep/12-19-05

Abstract

This paper is a descriptive study on the topic: Entrepreneurial mentoring for students’ development in Nigeria: Business education perspective. Entrepreneurship is a popular concept among management scholars in recent times. Its relevance is geared toward grooming young people to become well established entrepreneurs of the future, taking into cognizance the unemployable and under-employable nature of graduates in today’s economy. Thus mentoring students to develop into established entrepreneurs is imperatives especially in a nation like Nigeria. This paper explores approaches, needs and challenges of entrepreneurial mentoring in Nigeria. The main focus of the paper is on business education students, who are skilled in business development orientation. Business education as a course is built on management skill, marketing skills, office technology skills and accounting skills. It is also synthesizes the ideas of critical thinking, problem solving and technological savvy skills. Thus, The paper recommends among others that entrepreneurial mentoring should be carried out and built through a formal and organized process. That best approaches and experience entrepreneurs(lecturers) should be employed when carrying out mentoring. Finally, that students’ potentials should be identify and developed through entrepreneurial education and mentoring. The paper concludes that entrepreneurial mentoring offers potentially transformative impact on career focus of students and establish basis for sustainable venture in post school life. Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Mentoring, Entrepreneurial Mentoring, Students Development, Business Education DOI: 10.7176/JEP/12-19-05 Publication date: July 31 st 2021

Highlights

Entrepreneurship is a prevalent concept among business and management scholars in recent times
Purpose of the Study The purpose of the paper is to determine the concept of entrepreneurial mentorship, and how it can enhance students development in Nigeria
It will contribute to employment solutions of the nation as it engages more young people and make them focus on positive careers than destruction behaviours

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Entrepreneurship is a prevalent concept among business and management scholars in recent times. Someone who exercises business judgment in the face of uncertainty, (Herbert and Link, 2011). In consonant with the above, Francis Quesnay, the founder of physiocratic school formulated large scale farmers as entrepreneurs, while Jean-Baptiste Say, broadened the concept by putting the entrepreneur at the core of the entire process of production and distribution. Entrepreneurship incorporates the educational institutions to impact knowledge, ideas and abilities to make mature judgment and position to create goods and services in the area of business education, industrial technical education, home economic education, and other related fields of learning. Entrepreneurship is not separable from any profession as long as the process is concerned with creating something new and valuable by developing the necessary time and effort, psychic social risks and receiving personal satisfaction, independence and monetary rewards, (Hisrich, 2002)

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