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NEED FOR ACHIEVEMENT – BASIC FEATURE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP STUDENTS
Drago Pupavac
; Veleučilište u Rijeci Vukovarska 58, 51000 Rijeka, Republika Hrvatska
Abstract
The basic objective of this paper is to explore the secondary needs of students of specialist graduate studies of Entrepreneurship at the Polytechnic of Rijeka. Those are the need for achievement and the need for social approval. Needs are a source of motivation, but they do not always directly bring the realization of goals which would gratify them. This means that students should be constantly encouraged, so as to help the actualization of their business ventures, to bring them to life and to attain them. To prove the hypothesis on the great need for achievement of entrepreneurship students, numerous scientific methods were applied, among them interview, methods of analysis and synthesis, and comparative method. Empirical research was conducted through interviews with students of specialist graduate studies of Entrepreneurship at the Polytechnic of Rijeka during the winter semester of academic years 2012/2013 and 2013/2014. Seventy-eight students were included in the survey, 21 of them were male (26,9%) and 57 were female (73,1%), within the age group of 21-26. The results thus obtained suggest above the average level of need for achievement (but not a high level) and an average need for social approval.
Keywords
entrepereneurship; needs; motivation; students
Hrčak ID:
144502
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Publication date:
9.9.2015.
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