THE SELF-ASSESSMENT ABILITIES OF ENTREPRENEUR WOMAN MANAGERS UNDER STRESS: THE RESULTS OF A SURVEY ON THIS ISSUE
GİRİŞİMCİ KADIN YÖNETİCİLERİN STRES ALTINDA KENDİNİ DENETLEME BECERİLERİ:BU KONUDA DÜZENLENEN BİR ANKET ÇALIŞMASININ SONUÇLARI

Author : Hakan KARA -- Emre SEZİCİ
Number of pages : 669-695

Abstract

The main goal of this survey is to assess the possible stress factors of entrepreneur woman-managers and their struggling methods developed. On the way to reach this goal, the required data have been gathered from the entrepreneur woman-managers carrying on business in Kütahya. During the pre-interviewa with the accessible entrepeneur woman- managers in this scope, these managers have tried to describe the stress factors and the ways to struggle. According to the data supplied, the reasons of stress and struggling methods have been worked up into a form of survey. The entrepreneur woman-managers have been asked to mark the most important 10 factors during the practice. According to the data, it has been understood that the first of the stress factors is workload; and the first of the methods of struggling is to join different groups in social life. And by the applied Rosenbaum’s Learned Resourcefulness Scale, it has been seen that the subjects are exposed to the effects of stressful incidents less and the rate of confronting problems decreases. Moreover, the correlation between stress factors and struggling methods has been tried to be determined by hypothesis testing. Furthermore, to contribute to poestics and build up a common ground, the terms entrepreneur and entrepreneur manager have been defined. In this context, an entrepreneur is a person who participates in maintaining the whole practices of an economic unit, determines a course of action autonomously in risky business venture and manages the use of income acquired. It is possible to define entrepreneur manager as the one who carries out the management practices by oneself venturing all issues related to the economic unit maintained; hence accordingly planning, organizing, orientation, coordination and implements control functions.

Keywords

Entrepreneur, entrepreneur woman-manager, stress, learned resourcefulness

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