Identifying the dimensions of entrepreneurial competencies of ‎vocational schools

Rapid growth and ever-changing societies, has made the necessity of training skilled, specialized and ‎entrepreneurial human resources inevitable. In the education system, vocational schools have an ‎important role in training skilled manpower for jobs required by society and the labor market. The main ‎purpose of this research was to identify the dimensions of entrepreneurial competencies of vocational ‎schools in Hormozgan province. ‎

This research is applied in terms of purpose and was conducted base on framework of qualitative ‎approach. To this purpose, 11 academic experts and knowledgeable people were selected with a ‎purposeful sampling strategy based on data saturation and interviewed in a semi-structured way. To ‎analyze the stements of the interview sessions, three-step coding was used. To ensure the validity of ‎the research used of triangulation of the data sources and reviewed by members (interviewees) methods. ‎Also, to calculate reliability were used of the retest and the agreement between the two coder methods. ‎After implementing the content of the interviews and their preliminary analysis, Codes or basic ‎concepts were identified and In order to achieve the main categories, similar codes are placed on specific ‎categories. Finally, for each of the categories, the title that contains the entire codes was select.‎

The results of this study led to the extraction of 4 dimensions which are: Personality (individual) ‎competencies, managerial and leadership competencies, technical-professional competencies and ‎cultural competencies.‎

The main purpose of establishing vocational schools is to train entrepreneurial graduates. The four ‎main dimensions of this research can be an effective effective factor in improving the entrepreneurial ‎competencies of vocational schools and have beneficial results in improving the educational quality of ‎vocational schoolsDiscussionThe main purpose of establishing vocational schools is to train entrepreneurial graduates. The four ‎main dimensions of this research can be an effective effective factor in improving the entrepreneurial ‎competencies of vocational schools and have beneficial results in improving the educational quality of ‎vocational schools