MANAGING ORGANISATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP POLICY AT HIGHER INSTITUTION TRAINING: THE EXPERIENTIAL APPRAISAL OF NIGERIA

Okechukwu Dominic, Nwankwo and Loyce Chiedozie Onyali

Division of General Studies

Anambra State University,Igbariam Campus, Anambra State, Nigeria

Email: nwankwodo@gmail.com; nwankwodo@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

This research work is on the managing organisational entrepreneurship policy at higher institution training in Nigeria. The research identified organisational entrepreneurship policies in Nigerian higher institutions from the perspective of trainees’ selection, training curricula, industrial practice, and assessment modalities.  It also identified that organisational entrepreneurship policy and its management at the higher institutions training in Nigeria is militated by myriad of challenges.  These include societal attitude to functional knowledge, “connection” syndrome, personality disposition, supervisory limitations, training facilities and environment. The null hypothesis investigated in the study examined whether the entrepreneurship qualities arising from the Nigerian higher institution training vary from one another in their effectiveness. The entrepreneurship qualities measured in the study are Initiative Ability, Pragmatic Ability, and Organizational Competency. Each entrepreneurship quality had 5 items that assessed entrepreneurship efficacy of the higher institution training in Nigeria. They were measured with a 15-item questionnaire on a 5-point scale of strongly agree (5), agree (4), undecided (3), disagree (2), and strongly disagree (1). The questionnaire for the study attained 80% Theme Analysis relevance, r = .71 validity, r = .77 test-retest reliability. The result found that organisational entrepreneurship policy as regards higher institutions training in Nigeria is functionally more effective in organisational competency manifestations, followed by initiative ability manifestations, and lastly by pragmatic ability. Consequently the following recommendations were proffered: More practical training of the trainees, counseling services for the trainees as regards their potentials, adequate funding of the higher institution, curbing corruption in the higher institutions, trainees and train selection based on competency and ability, focusing training at the higher institutions as goal-directed programme through which opportunities and wealth can be created.