effect of entrepreneurial education on work motivation and polytechnic student entrepreneurial career intentions in Pariwisata Polytechnic Bali

Abstract

The study aimed to determine the effect of entrepreneurship education on work motivation and entrepreneurial career intentions among Bali Tourism Polytechnic students. The research method is descriptive quantitative. The sampling technique of 2,556 students used random sampling based on the Morgan table corrected using the Warwick and Lininger formulas to get a sample of 392 respondents. Hypothesis testing uses Structural Equation Modeling analysis with Partial Least Squares (PLS-SEM). The research results are; (1) Entrepreneurship education has a direct positive and significant effect on work motivation with a coefficient of 0.251 and T-statistics of 2.428 and P-Values of 0.016; (2) Entrepreneurship education has a direct positive and significant effect on entrepreneurial career intentions with a coefficient of 0.264 and T-Statistics of 2.281 and P-Values of 0.023; (3) Work motivation has a direct positive and significant effect on entrepreneurial career intention coefficient 0.468 and T-Statistics 5.868 and P-Values 0.000; (4) Entrepreneurship education has an indirect effect on entrepreneurial career intentions through work motivation coefficient 0.118 and T-Statistics 2.055 and P-Values 0.040. The findings of this study are that work motivation has the strongest direct effect on entrepreneurial career intentions and can mediate the influence of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial career intentions.