Amir Ahmadpour; fatemeh salili; mohamad reza shahraki
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Given the policies adopted by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology to make the universities and students entrepreneurs, innovative behavior in students can help the development of academic environment and, at the same time, it can be effective in motivating entrepreneurship amongst the students ...
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Given the policies adopted by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology to make the universities and students entrepreneurs, innovative behavior in students can help the development of academic environment and, at the same time, it can be effective in motivating entrepreneurship amongst the students and lay the ground for their employment. In this respect, various factors can influence students’ innovative behavior. This study aims to explore the factors underpinning students’ innovative behavior in the Faculty of Agriculture in Sari, Iran. The statistical population was composed of 433 students, out of which 206 students were selected through simple randomization on the basis of Krejcie and Morgan table. Data were collected with a self-designed questionnaire whose face and content validity was confirmed by a panel of experts. Also, the average derived variance (0.830 < AVE < 0.923) and combined reliability (0.500 < CR < 0.620) showed that the research measurement model had convergent reliability and appropriate validity. Also, the research research structual model was found to have diagnostic validity since the average derived variance was greater than the average shared squared variance and maximum shared squared variance. Data were analyzed by multivariate method of structural equations modeling using partial least squares method with the Smart PLS software package. The results revealed that out of nine studied factors, four factors including organizational culture (β = 0.296 and ρ = 0.010), education (β = 0.330 and ρ = 0.001), motivation (β = 0.249 and ρ = 0.006) and personality
naeemeh zolali; bahman khusravipuor; adel zare
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The aim of this study was to investigate the employment problems of agricultural graduates and the forecast of its trend in the future. A survey research methodology was conducted in this research. The Research instrument included a questionnaire. Face validity of the questionnaire by a number of Tarbiat ...
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The aim of this study was to investigate the employment problems of agricultural graduates and the forecast of its trend in the future. A survey research methodology was conducted in this research. The Research instrument included a questionnaire. Face validity of the questionnaire by a number of Tarbiat Modarres and Tehran university agricultural extension and education faculty was confirmed and its reliability was estimated to be θ=0.85 using ordinal theta. The target population included Administrators and research and educational institutions faculty of Jehad-Keshavarzi in Tehran province (N=327) that among of them 147 person was chosen by using random sampling method. The results indicate that Executive Administrators were summarized agriculture graduates problems in four factors: Negative attitude to do private jobs, non- rational choice field of study, negative social status and Graduates employment problems. These four factors explained 69% of common variance factors and present problems. Results showed that some of these problems, according to the new education and agriculture policies, a decreasing trend and improvement is expected by respondents such as credentialism problem of graduates, desk mindset of graduates, lack of knowledge of agricultural fields before entering the university and the lack of the spirit of self-employment among graduates. The results showed that crises of agricultural education system in future include: Low employment agricultural graduates in government organizations, migration of rural graduates to urban areas, Employment of graduates in unrelated jobs and The only challenge to this system is the unwillingness of graduates doing things and issues relating to agriculture
