A scale to measure entrepreneurial behaviour of dairy farm women

Abstract

The present research investigation was under taken in North Gujarat. Two districts namely, Banaskantha and Sabarkantha were selected by random procedure, total 120 dairy farm women from eight villages of four talukas, 15 from each village constituted the sample size to measure their entrepreneurial behaviour. To measure the Entrepreneurial Behaviour of Dairy Farm women a scale was developed. The standard procedure was followed to develop the scale such as collection of components, selection of components, relevancy test, computation of scale value by normalized rank method, preparation of statements/items, item analysis, testing reliability of the scale and testing validity of the scale as per criteria given by Edward (1969). Finally, nine components of entrepreneurial behaviour of dairy farm women namely, innovativeness, decision making ability, achievement motivation, risk orientation, planning ability, coordinating ability, information seeking behaviour, self-confidence and cosmopoliteness were selected based on relevancy weightage and scale value. It was observed that the scale values of components of entrepreneurial behaviour of dairy farm women i.e. innovativeness, decision making ability, achievement motivation, risk orientation, planning ability, coordinating ability, information seeking behaviour, self-confidence and cosmopoliteness were 9.97, 7.52, 6.07, 5.64, 4.82, 3.96, 3.24, 3.24 and 2.27, respectively. It also revealed that all the statements under components of entrepreneurial behaviour of dairy farm women were found to be highly significant. And also, all the statements had relevancy weightage more than 0.70. Hence, the entrepreneurial behaviour scale was found to be standardized.