Abstract
Current research aimed to review impact of personality and psychological features on entrepreneurship skills of employees. The research has an applied objective where data were gathered in cross-sectional form. Statistical population is all employees in the Tejarat Bank in one of western cities of Iran who are 250 persons. To determine the size of the sample according to Morgan table, 152 people were determined. Sampling method is simple random sampling. Two questionnaires were used to collect data. To measure validity of the questionnaire, formal validity was used and to measure reliability Cronbach Alpha coefficient was used applying SPSS version 19. R=0/860 was calculated for questionnaire of personality and psychological features and 0/843 was obtained for entrepreneurship skills questionnaire. For data analysis, descriptive and inferential statistics (Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and binomial test) were used. The results of the research indicate that personality and psychological features of employees are effective in their entrepreneurship skills in working place. So, at the end some suggestions were presented for improving entrepreneurial skills of employees.
Highlights
Nowadays everybody believes that personality traits, social and cultural goals and environment and investors can influence on features, performance and goals of companies that have been created (Gedsun, 2010)
This study investigated the effects of personality and psychological characteristics of the entrepreneurial skills of Tejarat bank employees
As the results showed the most important and original research assume that personality traits and psychological impact on entrepreneurial skills, so it was accepted and the alternative hypothesis (H0) was rejected
Summary
Nowadays everybody believes that personality traits, social and cultural goals and environment and investors can influence on features, performance and goals of companies that have been created (Gedsun, 2010). Feature of the approach seeks to identify potential entrepreneurial features through the assessment of the individual's personality traits and motivations (Haas, Lashgarara, 2010). In the mid-1980`s Thomas Begley and David Boyd, reviewed the literature on psychological characteristics of entrepreneurship to achieve the distinction between traditional managers and entrepreneurs. They eventually identified five dimensions (need to make a breakthrough, control center, risk, tolerance for ambiguity and behavior of type A) (Moghimi, 2005). In entrepreneurial studies researchers divided factors affecting entrepreneurial behavior into three categories: social, environmental and individual
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