The effect of volunteer management mentoring program on mentors’ entrepreneurship tendency and leadership self-efficacy

Ebru KÜLEKÇİ AKYAVUZ,Esra ASICI

doi:10.17275/per.21.26.8.2

Ebru KÜLEKÇİ AKYAVUZ, Esra ASICI

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https://doi.org/10.17275/per.21.26.8.2

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Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the effect of participating in the Volunteer Management Mentoring Program on entrepreneurship tendency and leadership self-efficacy. The Volunteer Management Mentoring Program was created by UNICEF and conducted within the scope of the Social Sensitivity course taught at Kilis 7 Aralik University, Turkey. This research was designed as a semi-experimental study with pretest-posttest experiment and control groups. Entrepreneurship Scale and Leadership Self-Efficacy Scale were applied to the students in the experimental and control groups as pretest and posttest. While the students in the experimental group participated in the Volunteer Management Mentoring Program in the process; the students in the control group did not participate in any program. The study group was determined using the criterion sampling method and consisted of 26 university students studying at Kilis 7 Aralik University in the 2019-2020 academic year. 13 students were in the experimental group and 13 in the control group. Personal Information Form, Entrepreneurship Scale for University Students, and Leadership Self-Efficacy Scale were used as data collection tools. The data were analyzed using SPSS package program. Two-factor repeated-measures ANOVA technique was used in the analysis. The findings showed that mentor university students who participated in the Volunteer Management Mentoring Program increased their scores for the entrepreneurship scale after the program was completed. According to another finding, participation in the Volunteer Mentoring Management Program had no significant effect on the leadership self-efficacy scores of mentor students.

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With the advent of globalization, the qualities expected of the youth of the 21st century have changed (Cansoy, 2018)
The results revealed that participating in Volunteer Management Mentoring Program was significantly effective on the mentor students’ entrepreneurship tendency; it had no significant effect on their leadership selfefficacy
It can be said that the Volunteer Management Mentoring Program enabled the mentor students to gain entrepreneur personality traits such as innovativeness, self-confidence, creativity, and achievement motivation (Abdylaev &Yurekli, 2018; Aydın, 2015; Caliendo & Kritikos, 2011; Demir & Demiryurek, 2018; Moore, 2003; Nybakk & Hansen, 2008; Shane, 2000; Wickham, 2001)

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With the advent of globalization, the qualities expected of the youth of the 21st century have changed (Cansoy, 2018). In the 21st century, young people are expected to successfully continue their private, social, and professional lives, adapt to positive changes, The effect of volunteer management mentoring program on mentors’. Today's youth should have high-level skills and competencies. These high-level skills and competencies expected of young people in the information society are called 21st century skills (Anagün, Atalay, Kılıç, & Yaşar, 2016). 21st century skills focus on what a person can do with the knowledge they possess (Silva, 2009) and include features that enable individuals to become qualified workers and good citizens (Ananiadou & Claro, 2009) These high-level skills and competencies expected of young people in the information society are called 21st century skills (Anagün, Atalay, Kılıç, & Yaşar, 2016). 21st century skills focus on what a person can do with the knowledge they possess (Silva, 2009) and include features that enable individuals to become qualified workers and good citizens (Ananiadou & Claro, 2009)

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