Kash Towards Entrepreneurship Among Senior High School Students: Bases for an Entrepreneurial Career Plan

Authors

  • Annabelle Bughao

Keywords:

knowledge, attitude, skills and habit (KASH),Entrepreneurship

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Entrepreneurship is very vital in one individual and community as well. It can generate income and employment. Young Entrepreneurs must have knowledge, attitude, skills, and habit for entrepreneurial success. The harmony of knowledge, attitude, and skills leads to competence. The study was undertaken to examine the knowledge, attitude, skills, and habits of senior high school students towards Entrepreneurship using the Purpose Driven Entrepreneurship, their demographic characteristics and to determine the gender influence in the variables that shape entrepreneurial intentions.

METHODS

The researcher used the descriptive design, self-made questionnaire to examine KASH and gender influence on entrepreneurial intentions. The sample size for the study was 117 grade 12 students in General Flaviano Yengko Senior High School. The data were subjected to statistical analysis using weighted mean, frequency percentage distribution.

RESULTS

Based on the data gathered, it was found that most of the senior high school students are 18 years old, male and belong to the ABM strand. It was revealed for knowledge that most of the respondents learned to develop a marketing and business plan, for Attitude, it shows that most of the respondents are interested in doing business, while for the skills, most of the respondents have technology and information skills, with regards to the Enterprise Development Skills, and for Habit, most of the respondents agree that they can create products in any materials they have, most of them have an intention to attend Entrepreneurship training and seminars, willing to put up their own business and willing to take risk, surprise people their new and different ideas, prefer to work that requires original thinking.

DISCUSSIONS

Based on the result, researchers recommend that school, teachers, parents, and the government continue to inculcate the entrepreneurial mind to Senior High School students. The Entrepreneurship subject to students is very vital, knowing how to write a Marketing and Business Plan can serve as a tool for their business success in the future. Stakeholders support and contribution on Entrepreneurship is necessary for the young entrepreneurs to be responsible to put up their small business, to the products that they want to offer, to patronize the local business around them and for the future researchers must continue to gather more information and data related to this study. The researchers proposed an Entrepreneurial Development Plan that can help students to understand business and to be prepared in having their own business after Senior High School.

Published

2019-01-18