ENTREPRENEURIAL MOTIVATIONAL AND PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS TRAINING TECHNIQUES NEEDED BY TEACHERS OF ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION AND MAINTENANCE WORK TRADE IN NORTH EAST, NIGERIA

Onuh James, Umar Adamu Kwami

Abstract


This study was designed to determine the entrepreneurial motivational and personal effectiveness training needed by
teachers of Electrical Installation and Maintenance Work Trade in Science and Technical colleges in North East Geo-political
zone, Nigeria. The entire population of 155 was used, as no sampling was done. The population was made up of 80 teachers
of Electrical Installation and Maintenance work trade in 24 science and technical colleges and 75 entrepreneurs in seventy
eight private and public industries in the North East Geo-political zone, Nigeria. The instrument used for data collection was 5 points Likert scale questionnaire. Two research questions and hypotheses guided the study. The methods of data analysis
used were mean, standard deviation and t-test of difference between two means. Finding indicated among others that there
is need to train teachers in the entrepreneurial motivational and personal effectiveness training techniques to be able to make the teachers fit into the current trends of entrepreneurship. Recommendations include among others, the training of
electrical installation and maintenance work trade teachers through seminars, conferences, workshops, formal education
in order to have good knowledge of entrepreneurial skills to enable them manage small and medium scale enterprises.


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