HUMAN RELATION, INNOVATION SKILLS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUCCESS OF BUSINESS EDUCATION GRADUATES
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2025
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Department of Business and Entrepreneurship Education, KWASU
Abstract
Business Education is a programme designed to enable students acquire the necessary skills
to be self-employed and also to succeed as entrepreneurs after graduation. However, the
unabated unemployment situation raises the question of whether the objective of the
programme is achieved. It is as a result of this, that the investigated the influence of human
relations, innovation and problem-solving skills on entrepreneurship success of business
education graduates in South-West, Nigeria. The specific purposes are to determine the extent
of influence each of human relation, innovation, and problem-solving on entrepreneurship
success. The study adopted descriptive survey design. The population of the study was 223.
The study sample consisted of 223 respondents, matching the population size; therefore,
census sampling was employed. The instrument used for data collection was a structured
questionnaire titled Influence of Human Relation, Innovation and Problem-solving Skills on
Entrepreneurship Success Questionnaire (IHRIPSESQ). The instrument was validated by
three experts and a reliability coefficient of 0.87 was obtained for the instrument using
Cronbach Alpha reliability method. Frequency and percentage were used to analyze the
demographic data of the respondents while mean and standard deviation were employed to
analyze data for answering research questions. The two null hypotheses were tested using
independent sample t-test statistics at 0.05 level of significance. The independent samples t
test revealed that there was a significance difference in the mean perception of male and
female respondents regarding the influence of human relations skills on Business Education
graduates’ self-reliance (t218 = 0.01, P<0.05). The study found that human relations
innovation and problem-solving skills positively influenced entrepreneurship success of
Business Education graduates. The study showed that there was a significant difference
between the mean perception of respondents from federal and state universities regarding the
influence of innovation skills entrepreneurship success of business education graduates (t218
= 0.001, P<0.05). The study also showed that there was no significant difference between the
mean perceptions of respondents from federal and state universities regarding the influence of
innovation skills on self-reliance of Business Education graduates (t218 = 0.172, P>0.05). It
was concluded that human relations, problem-solving and innovation skills positively
influenced entrepreneurship success of Business Education graduates. It was recommended
among others that Business Education graduates need to acquire problem-solving skills that
will equip them for entrepreneurship success and that Business Education graduates should
aspire to possess innovation needed to generate new ideas, products and services for
entrepreneurship success.
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Mamman, J.S., Prof. Lawrence F. Ademilyi & Joseph A. Mafikuyomi (2025): Human Relation Innovation Skills and Entrepreneurship Success of Business Education Graduates. KWASU Journal of The Business of Education. 5 (1); 131-144