AN ANALYSIS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENTREPRENEURIAL BEHAVIORAL CHARACTERISTICS IN IFNMG COURSE STUDENTS.
Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial Behavioral Characteristics. McClelland model.
The main objective of this research is to identify and analyze the entrepreneurial behavioral characteristics of students of the Federal Institute of Northern Minas Gerais - IFNMG. The results were compared to the results obtained in other related studies on the theme of the research. As for nature, this is applied research with descriptive objective. The sample is composed of students from the technical courses and higher courses of IFNMG. Quantitative analysis of the responses obtained was performed. The results indicate that the students have the ten characteristics analyzed and that among these characteristics most developed among students of technical courses and higher education courses were, Search for Opportunities and Initiative and Commitment. Regarding the less developed characteristics in this researched group, persistence and goal setting among students of technical courses and Persistence and Risk Calculated among students of higher education courses. As scores obtained in the classification of behavioral characteristics of this study indicate similarities to other correlated studies. Through a cross-correlation, these data analyzed the ability of entrepreneurship teaching to raise the behavioral characteristics of these students. The results showed a weak and insignificant positive correlation, which suggests that the Federal Institute would not be able to raise the entrepreneurial behavioral characteristics of its students through the teaching of entrepreneurship. It is expected that the results contribute to the development of entrepreneurial education with regard to the contents applied and developed on the theme entrepreneurship in their curricular notes.