amir ahmadpour; hedar ghasemi; mehdi alikhani dadukulaee
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Entrepreneurship is one of the major building blocks of sustainable development. Accordingly, this study sought to model the influencing factors affecting the development of entrepreneurial skills among students at Two-year agricultural colleges in Iran. This research is a cause-correlational and the ...
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Entrepreneurship is one of the major building blocks of sustainable development. Accordingly, this study sought to model the influencing factors affecting the development of entrepreneurial skills among students at Two-year agricultural colleges in Iran. This research is a cause-correlational and the statistical population comprised of 9,907 agricultural students at 13 agriculture Colleges mation unites. Sample size was determined using Cochran formula (n=228). The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire the content validity of which was approved by agricultural extension experts and its reliability was estimated to be θ= 0.94 using ordinal theta. Data analysis was done by applying SPSSWin21 and LISREL (8/5). Results showed that, approximately 37.1% of respondents ranked their entrepreneurial skills at an intermediate level and 29.7% considered it at high level. Applying Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) indicated that the most important factor influencing the development of entrepreneurial skills among students in agricultural colleges in Iran is the entrepreneurial spirit with the path coefficient of 0.56. Personal factors with path coefficient of 0.42 had an impact on the development of entrepreneurial skills. Environmental factors and educational factors with 0.19 and 0.42 were effective on the development of entrepreneurial skills, respectively. The educational factors, with path coefficient of 0.42, had an impact on the entrepreneurial skills development; also, it has an impact on the environmental factors with path coefficient of 1.07. In establishing the latent variable of the entrepreneurial skills, planning and setting the goals were the most effective.
Aliakbar Abbasirustami; mehdi Alikhani dadukulaee; mehdi charmchian
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Organizations need to continuously improve their performance for their survival and development among which the crucial factor is improving their experts’ and agents’ job performance. Accordingly, the current study aimed at evaluating the relationship between agricultural extension agents’ ...
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Organizations need to continuously improve their performance for their survival and development among which the crucial factor is improving their experts’ and agents’ job performance. Accordingly, the current study aimed at evaluating the relationship between agricultural extension agents’ job performance with environmental, motivational, educational, organizational and managerial factors and professional characteristics, the nature of work and job satisfaction using structural equation modeling. The study adopted a causal- correlational approach. The statistical population of this research consisted of 46 tobacco extension agents in Mazandaran and Golestan Provinces being selected through census. The data collection tool was a questionnaire whose validity was confirmed by a panel of experts, and its reliability was measured through Composite reliability ranging from 0.83 to 0.94. in order to analyze the data for both descriptive ad inferential statistics the SPSSWin21 and Smart PLS were used. The findings results showed that 13% of the agricultural extension agents’ job performance was excellent, 43.5% was good, 30.5% ranked average and 13.5% was weak and the most effective factor on extension agents ‘job performance was job satisfaction with path coefficient of 0.638 explaining 0.604 % of changes related to extension agents’ job performance. Therefore, to increase the tobacco extension agents’ job performance, it is necessary that the organization in charge improve their job satisfaction through appointing a suitable supervisor in the office, granting appropriate incentive and establishing the promotion system.
