Microsoft Word - Nordalia.docx IJOLAE | p-ISSN 2655-920x, e-ISSN 2656-2804 Vol. 1 (1) (2019) 1-8 1 The Tendency Towards Entrepreneurship… The Tendency Towards Entrepreneurship Among Students of Maktab Rendah Sains Mara (MRSM) Nordalila Mohammad Rasid1, Nor Aishah Buang2 1,2Faculty of Education, National University of Malaysia, Malaysia DOI: 10.23917/ijolae.v1i1.7287 Accepted: December 8th, 2018. Approved: February 18th, 2019. Published: February 21st, 2019 Abstract In this globalization’s era, entrepreneurship is one of the catalyst that related to the economy, enhancing innovation, creativity and competitive for a country. Based on that scenario, the entrepreneurial field today is developing rapidly in our country Malaysia through our educational system. So, this research was carried out to find out the tendencies among the students of Maktab Rendah Sains MARA (MRSM) in the field of entrepreneurship. This research was using descriptive method through quantitative approach. The questionnaire used as the research instrument by using the Likert Scale. All the data s obtained then analyzed using the Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22. All the respondent were 108 students of MRSM who had been chosen by simple random. The result showed that attitude was the main dimension that influenced student to be involve in entrepreneurship. Beside that, the result also showed that there was no slightly significant differences in the item of gender factor in entrepreneurship tendency among those students. Keywords: Entrepreneurship tendency, MRSM, entrepreneurship attitude Corresponding Author: Nordalila Mohammad Rasid, Faculty Pendidikan National University of Malaysia, Makaysia Email: didies78@gmail.com 1. Introduction Entrepreneurship is one of the main field for a country’s development. It is able to re- duce the jobless rate, poverty and also the job opportunities if it is used as a medium for in- creasing the country’s economy (Ravi 2015). On September 2017, the rate of jobless was same as last month by 3.4% with a 0.1% de- creased on September 2016. While the adjust- ment for this rate on September 2017 was 3.5%, increased by 0.1% compared to last month (Jabatan Perangkaan Malaysia, 2017). This jobless rate can be solved by choosing entrepreneurship as the chosen carrier. However, this field still cannot be a chosen carrier (Hafeza, 2012). Furthermore, this type of carrier in the future is still in the intermediate rate (Azmi, 2012). This shows that students nowadays are still not aware about the job chances in entrepreneurship (Norasmah et al. 2012). Based on this problem, Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA) implemented entrepre- neurship programs in order to nature and exposed the students of Maktab Rendah Sains MARA (MRSM) about the basics in entrepreneurship among them. It was done so to nature, develop and open the opportunities for learning and practising the principles of entrepreneurship among them so that they can choose entrepreneurship as their main carrier soon. The percentage of the after school students and university graduates who chooses entrepreneurship as their carrier was still low (Wan Mohd Zaifurin et al. 2016). Indonesian Journal on Learning and Advanced Education http://journals.ums.ac.id/index.php/ijolae Vol. 1 (1) (2019) 1-8 IJOLAE | p-ISSN 2655-920x, e-ISSN 2656-2804 2 The Tendency Towards Entrepreneurship… Then, the students who got experiences in entrepreneurship from secondary school seem to got awareness and entrepreneurship tendency earlier then others (Mohd et al. 2016). From this entrepreneurship program- mers, it managed to influence the development of psychology and cognitive abilities in entrepreneurship activities (Liliana 2014; Rosna Mohamad, Norasmah 2016) because the psychology factor showed the higher rate of entrepreneurship tendency (Jeraj & Maric 2013). However, the problem now is the entrepreneurship programme that been offered did not managed to develop students to think the way of an entrepreneur. Students still have problems in understanding the real contexts of entrepreneurship. Kajian Unit Kaunseling dan Kerjaya Bahagian Pelajaran dan Latihan Menengah MARA (BPLM) through a test named “Self Directed Search” (SDS) said that almost all MRSM’s students did not choose entrepreneurship as thier main carrier (MARA, 2015). This situation did not represent the real Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA)’s motto itself which is “Culturing the Entrepreneurship as the Chosen Carrier” (Membudayakan Keusahawanan Sebagai Kerjaya Pilihan). So, is all the programme related to entrepreneurship itself did not managed to attract students? So, this research had been carried out in order to recognize the rate of tendency for entrepreneurship among MRSM’s students and the differences in the rate based on gender. It is hope that the result from this research will give some inputs of ideas and references for next researchers in the future. Entrepreneurship activities are among the factors that can influences the tendency of entrepreneurship itself. There are a lot of research's had been done to determine the tendency of entrepreneurship among citizens especially among students. In order to produce an entrepreneur, he or she does not only to have a natural personalities but they also influenced by the other factors such as skills, family members and also experiences (Ab. Aziz, 2015). A person tendency in anything can be pushed by their eagerness to get something. If the he or she has a tendency for entrepreneurship so the probability for he or she to get himself or herself involved in entrepreneurship field will be higher. This means that the chances for that particular person to have tendency in choosing carrier in entrepreneurship will be higher if the he or she has a positive thinking and very eager to involved in that field. The past research had proven that positive attitudes can stimulate the rate of curiosity for a person to show of the next action by choosing entrepreneurship as a carrier. This statement had been recognized by Hisrich et al. (2008) when he believed that every person that have a strong tendency to do something will show the posi- tive probability toward what he or she want. However, the rate in tendency of students involved in entrepreneurship field is different. This is based on the Organized Behavior The- ory (Teori Perlakuan Terancang, TPT), where the human behavior can be predicted by iden- tifying the true intentions to do some particu- lar thing (Engle et al. 2010). In the TPT, it has three variables that can influences a person’s tendency which are attitude, subjective norma and impression of the behavior’s control (Ajzen, 1991). But, in this research covered only the ele- ments of controlled thought of behavior (inte- rest, attitude and desire) towards the tendency for entrepreneurship. The attitude and kno- wledge in entrepreneurship, both can increase student’s interest in entrepreneurship world (K,Wang, 2004). Beside that, family background also can generate the individual IJOLAE | p-ISSN 2655-920x, e-ISSN 2656-2804 Vol. 1 (1) (2019) 1-8 3 The Tendency Towards Entrepreneurship… interest and tendency in entrepreneurship. Ba- sed on the research conducted by Scoot (1988), family that run a business will influ- ence the tendency of entrepreneurship itself among the other family members. This was supported by Kristiansen & Indarti (2004) re- search where they stated that the factor of fa- mily background and experiences both influ- ence the tendency in entrepreneurship but contradicts with Osman (2007) where in his research stated that family background did not influences the tendency in entrepreneurship. Now, entrepreneurship education had been implemented by government to encou- rage Malaysian citizens to involve themselves in entrepreneurship especially in the secon- dary school in order for shaping students’ at- titude so they can create the job for themsel- ves and not as a job hunters (Wan Muhammad Zaifurin et al. 2016). This is because the in- volvement and exposure among students in the entrepreneurship form of activities in school had been proven to generate desire among students in entrepreneurship field (Ah- zilah, Norasidah & Namlus 2017). Siti Syu- hada, Muhammad Firdaus & Suhaila (2015) stated that competency, self control, self con- fidence and creative and innovative mind among students had been increased after they joined any entrepreneurship programme. Then, Ahzilah, Norasidah & Namlus (2017) mentioned that entrepreneurship education had been proven in increasing students’ abi- lity in analyzing the problems properly. In the same time, their involvement in entrepreneur- ship activities can spark some of the curiosity, motivation and interest in entrepreneurship (Rosli, 2013). So, this research is to find out how the rate of tendency in entrepreneurship among students of MRSM through some of the fac- tors such as interest, attitude and desire. 2. Method Methodology is one of the important as- pect in ensuring the goals of a research to be achieved. The design of this research is a sur- vey research which is in form of descriptive where all the information were collected from the respondents to observe the tendency fac- tors among MRSM students in entrepreneurs- hip. The research population is 150 MRSM students. Based on the sample size determina- tion Krejcie and Morgan (1970), sample size that had been chosen is 108 respondents. The instrument used was questionnaire that has two sections which is A dan B. Sec- tion A contains 4 items related to the respon- dents background while section B with 15 items covered the accepts of interest, attitude and desire towards entrepreneurship. The questionnaire set can be see Table 1. Table 1. The Content of The Questionnaire Section Details Item A Respondent Demography Interest 3 5 B Attitude Desire 5 5 The items in section B used the five marks Likert Scale assessment which is num- ber 1,2,3,4 and 5 to represent whether the res- pondent agree or not about the question (Chua, 2006). Below shows the five marks Li- kert Scale ranking used in this research. Vol. 1 (1) (2019) 1-8 IJOLAE | p-ISSN 2655-920x, e-ISSN 2656-2804 4 The Tendency Towards Entrepreneurship… Table 2. Assessment Sckale Towards the Items in Section B Scale Assessment 1 Strongly Disagree 2 Disagree 3 Neutral 4 Agree 5 Strongly Agree A pilot study had been done towards 30 MRSM students who have been choosen ran- domly to get a validity and trustworthiness questionnaire. By this pilot study, researcher manage to know the comments and suggesti- ons in order to improve the items used in this questionnaire. The questionnaire trustworthi- ness for this research determined by the value of Realibility Cronbach’s Alpha that gained from the SPSS software. So, all the raw data obtained from the pilot study was been analysised. The alpha value was been analys- ised totaly and separately according to the va- riable factors of the research. The result sho- wed reliability coefficient, alpha value for the whole item built was 0.781. Creswell (2012) mentioned that the result for Cronbach Alpha value which exceed 0.80 and above can be ac- cepted. This shows that the validity and trus- tworthiness for questionnaire used is high and satisfying to be conduct in a real study. So, this measurement is accepted and had been used in the real study. The data analysis about the rate of ten- dency in entrepreneurship involed the fre- quency, percentage, min score and standard deviation. All the datas obtained were quanti- tative. In this research, the analysis data me- thodologies used were frequency score (f), percentage (%) and min which is descriptive statistic analysis and T-test. The min value intrepertation based on the scale used by Ra- himah (2006), which was score value 1.00 – 2.33 low, 2.34 – 3.67 medium and 3.68 – 5.00 high. 3. Result and Discuss This part is to determine all the results and information related by the respondent de- mographic. This demography was been analy- zed using the frequency and percentage. Table 3 below shows the result about the demogra- phy of the all respondents in MRSM. Based on the gender, 72 for female students with 66.67% and 36 for male students with 33.33%. For the family background who in- volved in entrepreneurship, 23 students with 21.30%. While 85 students with 79.63% their families did not involved in entrepreneurship. Next, the tendency for them to involve in en- trepreneurship, 33 students with 30.56% like to work with salary while 75 students with 69.44% prefer to involved in entrepreneurs- hip. The table below shows the demo graph for all respondents. Table 3. Respondent Demography Item Adverb Frequency Percentage Gender Male 36 33.33% Female 72 66.67% Family Background Do Business 23 21.30% Does not do Business 85 79.63% Carrire Choosed Self Employed 75 69.44% Salary Worker 33 30.56% To Determine the Rrate of Tendency in Student Entrepreneurship Among MRSM Students. IJOLAE | p-ISSN 2655-920x, e-ISSN 2656-2804 Vol. 1 (1) (2019) 1-8 5 The Tendency Towards Entrepreneurship… Table 4 below shows min and percen- tage for student interest, attitude and desire in entrepreneurship. Study by Salmianti (2014), stated that tendency mean interest, intentions, likeness or what a person want. The intention to try anythings in a specific field can be used to determine what are the field that a person will be involved. The result showed that inte- rest in entrepreneurship recorded the highest min value (min=4.26, SD=.782) with 90.7% respondents agreed and strongly agree. Then, followed by involving in entrepreneurship ac- tivities with min value=4.14 and SD=.633. About 74.3% (m=4.13, SD=.810) of the res- pondents always see the advertisement about entrepreneurship programme to find a suitable business. Then, respondents who said that they were suitable for entrepreneurship with min 4.02 (SD=.529). Beside that, respondent also did not discuss more about this because the min value just only 3.99 (SD=.690) with 75.9%. Although the respondents showed a high interest in entrepreneurship, however they said that their knowledge about the en- trepreneurship issues were still low. This ha- ppened because they did not get a enough ex- posure about entrepreneurship. The teachers in MRSM also can plan some activities in form of collaborative and cooperative lear- ning about entrepreneurship (Normah dan Ru- haiza (2014). Entrepreneurship programme that often held can be able to show the entre- preneurship culture and high interest among MRSM students. Table 4. Frequency and Percentage of MRSM Students in Loading Demension Based on the Table 5, the attitude to meet with any successful entrepreneur has the highest min score with 4.38 (SD=.488) with 100% agree and strongly agree. Then follo- wed by mingle with entrepreneur with min score 4.43 (SD=.653). Next, attending any so- cial programme with min value 4.20 (SD=.794). Grab the job opportunities with attending entrepreneurship expos with min value 4.12 (SD=.652) and finally min value 4.09 (SD=.322) for those who always finding job in business. This finding shows that there are students who did not interested in entre- preneurship with a high min score. For MRSM administration, they should improve the entrepreneurship activities so that it can be Num. Item 1 SNA 2 NA 3 N 4 A 5 SA Min SD Rate Interest A1. Interested in doing bussiness 4 3.7% 6 5.6% 56 51.9% 42 38.8% 4.26 .728 High A2. Attending entrepre- neurship activities 3 2.8% 6 5.6% 72 66.7% 27 25% 4.14 .633 High A3. Discussing about entrepreneurship issues 26 24.1% 57 52.8% 25 23.1% 3.99 .690 High A4. Saw advertisement aboout entrepreneurship activities 6 5.6% 11 10.2% 54 50% 37 34.3% 4.13 .810 High A5. Entrepreneurship is suitable with my interest 14 13% 78 72.2% 16 14.8% 4.02 .529 High Total Score Min 4.108 .678 High Vol. 1 (1) (2019) 1-8 IJOLAE | p-ISSN 2655-920x, e-ISSN 2656-2804 6 The Tendency Towards Entrepreneurship… more attractive such as bring students to the real live of an entrepreneur by attending busi- ness expos and meet any successful entrepre- neur. Table 6 shows the desire for entrepre- neurship career with the highest min value with 4.29 (SD=.612) with 93.5% agree and not agree. Followed by desire to achieve dream, with min value 4.28 (SD=.470) with 99.1% agree and strongly agree. Then, dream to be a young entrepreneur and having own business, both min value are 4.22 (SD=.518) and 4.19 (SD=.571). Success in business, got the lowest min value with 4.06 (SD=.230) but still recorded with the highest percentage which is 100% respondents agree and stron- gly agree. Table 5. Frequency and Percentage of MRSM Students Regarding Attitude Dimension Table 6. Frequency and Percentage of MRSM Students Regarding Desire Dimension Num Item 1 SNA 2 NA 3 N 4 A 5 SA Min SD Rate Desire A11. Entrepreneurship career 1 0.9% 6 7.4% 62 57.4% 39 36.1% 4.29 .612 High A12. Having own business 1 0.9% 3 2.8% 77 71.3% 27 25% 4.19 .571 High A13. Desire to achieve dream 1 0.9% 76 70.4% 31 28.7% 4.28 .470 High A14. To be a young entrepreneur 5 4.6% 74 68.5% 29 26.9% 4.22 .518 High A15. Success in bussiness 102 94.4% 6 7.4% 4.06 .230 High Total Score Min 4.208 0.480 High Based on Table 7 below, the factor of the students’ attitude towards entrepreneurship has the highest rate with min score 4.220 fol- lowed by their desire toward entrepreneurship with 4.208 and their interest with 4.108. This shows that the attitude factor is the main fac- tor that influences students towards entrepre- neurship. So, overall we can see that the students have their own potential of entrepreneurship. Num Item 1 SNA 2 NS 3 N 4 A 5 SA Min SD Rate Attitude A6. Mingle with entrepreneur 1 0.9% 5 4.6% 59 54.6% 43 39.8% 4.32 .653 High A7. Attending any social programme 2 1.85 19 17.6% 42 38.9% 45 41.7% 4.20 .794 High A8. Grab the job opportunities with attending entrepreneurship expo 4 3.7% 5 4.6% 73 12% 26 24.1% 4.12 .652 High A9. Finding job in bussiness 1 0.9% 96 88.9% 11 10.2% 4.09 .322 High A10. Meet with any suc- cessful entrepreneur 67 62% 41 38% 4.38 .488 High Total Score Min 4.22 0.582 High IJOLAE | p-ISSN 2655-920x, e-ISSN 2656-2804 Vol. 1 (1) (2019) 1-8 7 The Tendency Towards Entrepreneurship… Entrepreneurship activities should be done in order to spark their interest, attitude and de- sire. This should be a challenge to the school administration to make it real beside giving them motivation so that they can wisely deter- mine the opportunities and finally manage to make entrepreneurship as their career in the future. Table 7. Factors that Influenced Tendency Towards Entrepreneurship Among MRSM Students The Differences Between the Tendency of Entrepreneurship Based on Gender Table 8. The Tendency of Entrepreneurship Based on Gender T test n Min Standard De- viation Value of -t Rate of Signifi- cant Gender Male 36 4.220 .140 .900 .345 Female 72 4.148 .171 Based on the Table 8, min value for male student are higher than female students which is 4.220 (SD=.140) while min for female stu- dents is 4.148 (SD=.171). However, the T-test (Independent Sample Test) that has been car- ried out showed that there is no significant differences where the value p>0.05 for the item that measure the tendency towards entre- preneurship based on gender. This means that there is no differences for the item that mea- sure the tendency towards entrepreneurship based on gender. 4. Conclusion As the conclusion, this research had answered both objective that had been forwar- ded in order to determine the rate of tendency towards entrepreneurship among MRSM stu- dents. The factor of attitude is the main factor that influence students towards this entrepre- neurship field. 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