Abstract
This paper is aimed at studying personality traits and peculiarities of young people interested in and ready for running their own business. Factor structure of the personality types empirical model, that was emphasized in this paper, is an integral system of intellectual and personality traits, proving that there are different entrepreneurial activity intentionality levels. Three personality profiles of the potential Entrepreneurs were identified during the research: “Potentially successful Entrepreneurs”, “Creatively inclined”, “People working according to the sample”, these profiles can be characterized by different levels of ability to succeed in running business. These levels are different because of different personal potential and characteristics of Entrepreneurs: communication skills, motivation, ability to make responsible and important decisions, ability to take risk. The higher personality potential person has, the better his/her entrepreneurial abilities are developed and the higher his/her internal motivation is, the more he/she is interested in activity and self-development, becoming a real professional, exploring possibilities for self-realization, deriving satisfaction from work. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n3s2p640
Highlights
At the stage of Global Economic changes, taking place in different countries, the need in the resources that, on the one hand, shall stabilize the crisis and, on the other hand, can be the start-up for countries Economy, arises increasingly
Oswald (1998) more than 50% of the respondents in the USA, Great Britain, Germany were in favour of running their own business and declared against being hired employees), the reality is that “these numbers can be compared with an actual proportion of self-employed people in these countries of approximately 15%” (Blanchflower & Oswald, 1998, p. 26)
The aim of this paper is to analyze the situation in Russia, in Southern Federal District which, on the one hand, has supportive economic base for small business development, but on the other hand, only few people can fulfill their potential in this sphere in spite the fact that they are ready to run private business
Summary
At the stage of Global Economic changes, taking place in different countries, the need in the resources that, on the one hand, shall stabilize the crisis and, on the other hand, can be the start-up for countries Economy, arises increasingly. That the policy on supporting the development of private (small) business, searching and supporting young individuals ready and capable to become Entrepreneurs and run their own business is actively conducted in Russia (one of these projects is the All-Russian project “You Are an Entrepreneur”), it is still remains unclear, why in case of motivation, readiness and in case of having appropriate education (which is a very important fact), young people still abandon the idea of being Entrepreneurs and running their own business It may be assumed, that one of these reasons is personal “immaturity”, human personal features, lack of the appropriate aptitudes and abilities. The aim of our research is studying human personal features (personality profiles), young people tendencies to Entrepreneurial activity and to run their own business
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