Entrepreneurship Development: A People Change Approach To Self Actualization And Sustainability

This research presents an educational, training, and development approach that is focused on the need for change in the behaviour of the entrepreneurial stream, and the society in general, to attain true self-actualization and sustainability. The paper considers self actualization and sustainability as essentially entrepreneurial behaviour. A model that specifies the appropriate approaches for entrepreneurial education, training and development is presented. The emphases are, on individual, immediate environment, and the larger society in shaping the entrepreneurial personality. The paper reports a field study where four hypotheses were tested on education, training and development of entrepreneurs in Nigeria. The results showed strong support for the effect of education, training and Development on the entrepreneur\'s emergence, the behaviour of entrepreneurs was perceived to be negatively affected by lack of training and Development, and finally, the entrepreneurs perceived positive relationship between training and development, and entrepreneur\'s performance. The selected sample of entrepreneurs were asked to list areas of training and development needs in order to improve them on their various vocations and trades. The paper notes that the lessons from this research is that, education, training and development could be used as a vehicle for people change approach to self actualization and sustainability for the Nigerian nation, because they can be used to produce change in the behaviour of entrepreneurs. Conclusions and recommendations on the approach were highlighted. Keywords: Development; Entrepreneurs; Change; Self actualization Sustainability JORIND Vol. 5 (2) 2007: pp. 11-1