ENTREPRENEURSHIP SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AS PREDICTORS OF BUSINESS EDUCATION POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS JOB SECURITY IN THE ERA OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Chinenyenwa Silver Ukaegbu (Sr.) (Ph.D), Oliver Okechukwu Okanazu (Ph.D)

Abstract


The study investigated Entrepreneurship skills development as predictors of Business education postgraduate students’ job security in the Era of Artificial intelligence. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted a correlation research design. The population for the study consisted of 1108 Postgraduate Students in Public Universities in Enugu State. The sample size of 256 Postgraduate Students through multistage sampling technique was used for the study. The instrument for data collection was Postgraduate Students Entrepreneurship skills Questionnaire (PGSESQ) and Job security Questionnaire (JSQ). The instrument was subjected to face validation. The reliability index of 0.83 and 0.89 were obtained for the internal consistency of the instruments using the Cronbach Alpha method. Simple linear regression analysis to answer the research questions while regression ANOVA was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings showed that there was significant positive predictive power of Entrepreneurship skills on postgraduate students’ job security. Further result showed that gender significantly moderate Entrepreneurship skills and job security. It was recommended that postgraduate students should adhere to technology trends and learn more skills.

Keywords: Artificial intelligence, Business education, job security, and Entrepreneurship skills. Corresponding author: Oliver.okanazu@unn.edu.ng.

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