Connection between Student's Entrepreneurial Team Values and Student Entrepreneurial Character Building (SeCB) in Nurturing Entrepreneurial Intention

摘要

In today's more challenging working environment, organization needs excellent team leaders and team players. Universities are responsible to produce graduates with the preferred team values, behaviors and attitude. This is to ensure that they have better chance to get employed because they meet the personality standards required by the organization. Students Character Building (SCB) was adapted from student development theories that focuses on human growth and environmental influences in promoting student's learning and maturation, both in and outside of class. Most educators agree that assisting students in building their characters is a worth while effort. The study is relevant and important because it helps to advance student learning, helps students meet the challenges of university and hence enhances the quality of the student's life. Furthermore, the researcher will have the data collected as a tool to recommend entrepreneurial programs for the students to improve the least developed entrepreneurial team values. The study focuses on students currently studying in UniKL BMI who have involved in various entrepreneurial activities. Data and information are gathered through questionnaires, interviews, readings, experiences and observations. The instrumentation is based on 5 likert scale to support the findings. The findings of the study would be useful for the university policy makers to enhance the current approach in implementing student character building in the university. The researchers aim to recommend solutions to the identified entrepreneurial team problems and hence to assist the students to develop the preferred entrepreneurial team values for the purpose of nurturing their entrepreneurial intention.