Uma análise do desenvolvimento de características comportamentais empreendedoras em discentes dos cursos do IFNMG

Abstract

The main goal of this research is to identify and analyze the Entrepreneurial Behavior Characteristics (EBC) of Instituto Federal do Norte de Minas - IFNMG students. The results were compared to the findings of others correlated studies made about the subject in question. Regarding the nature, it is classified as an applied research with a descriptive purpose. The sample was collected through a questionnaire, sent via a link to IFNMG technical and higher education courses students. A quantitative analysis of the responses obtained was carried out and the results indicate that the students have the ten characteristics analyzed, the most prominent being: Pursuit of Opportunity, Initiative and Commitment. As for this researched group less developed characteristics, it is observed: Persistence and Goal Setting, among technical courses students, and Persistence and Taking Calculated Risks, among higher education courses students. The scores obtained in this study behavior characteristics classification showed similarities with data from other studies similar to this one. By means of hypothesis tests, EBC versus periods and cross-correlation of these data, the ability of teaching entrepreneurship to increase the behavioral characteristics of these students was analyzed. The results showed a weak and non-significant positive correspondence, which demonstrate that the educational institution would not be capable to raise the entrepreneurial behavior characteristics of its students through the teaching of entrepreneurship. A mistake committed in the application of the instrument used in the research made it impossible to collect data from three items of two dimensions: Planning and Power, respectively, thus forcing us to adapt it for this study. It is expected that the results will contribute to the discussion and review of the way in which entrepreneurship teaching has been conducted by the IFNMG. It is necessary that new researches, involving students and professors, be carried out to monitor the entrepreneurial development of these students.