The investigation of the relationship between managers’ applied skills and entrepreneurship development: A case study in West Azerbaijan’s food industrial firms

Abstract

Today, management and managers’ skills have two wide domains: psychological dimension through which managerial skills are considered as personality characters and empirical studies which have studied this construct comprehensively and precisely and have offered valid evaluation methods for its assessment. The current research is applied regarding its aim, descriptive with respect to subject characteristics, survey in terms of time and field study considering data collection. In this research, questionnaires are used to collect data. Research population consists of managers working in firms active in food industry of West Azerbaijan, Iran. Regarding that all-counting method is not possible, sample size calculated as 228 using Cochran method. The present research aims at investigating 3 hypotheses tested through Spearman correlation coefficient and SPSS. Results obtained from hypotheses test indicate that there is a positive significant relationship between managers’ applied skills (self-awareness, self-motivation and social awareness) and entrepreneurship development.