EVALUATING THE SOFT SKILL COMPETENCES REQUIRED OF BUSINESS EDUCATION STUDENTS FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT
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The paper evaluates the soft skills competencies required by business education students for entrepreneurship development in Cross River State, Nigeria. To achieve the objective, two research questions and two hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. A survey research design was adopted for the study. The population comprised 120 business education students. The Census population was used. A validated researcher-made four-point rating scale questionnaire titled. "Evaluating of Soft Skills Competencies Required by Business Education Students' for Entrepreneurship Development (ESSCRBESEDQ)" was used for data collection. The instrument was field and content validated by three research experts. A reliability estimate of .87 was achieved for the instrument using the Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficient after a pilot test. A mean and standard deviation were used to answer all the research questions, while an independent t-test was used to test the null hypotheses at a 0.05 level of significance. The result of the study revealed that business education students required organizing skills competencies and customers’ skills competencies for the development, management, and sustainability of their businesses for the economic growth and development in Nigeria. It was concluded that there was a need to put in place the institutional variables that could help business education students acquire the skills and competencies. It was recommended, among other things, that the business education department should partner with the industry to offer their students the required training for the effective acquisition of organizing skills competencies needed in the world of business and that business education students should be endeavored to acquire all the relevant skills necessary for them to create, and maintain their customer service needs.
Keywords: Evaluating, Soft Skills, Competencies, Entrepreneurship development
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