How can participants maintain and benefit from what they have learned during action-oriented entrepreneurship training in the long run?
In their recent study published in the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, Michael Gielnik and Carina Bohlayer examined the long-term performance of training participants over a period of one year after completion of the training.
Working with STEP data from Uganda, they found that training participants with high error mastery orientation successfully engaged in entrepreneurial action and created a new venture one year after the training program, whereas participants low in error mastery orientation experienced a short-term boost but ultimately declined in entrepreneurial action and new venture creation in the long run.
Error mastery orientation involves being able to deal with errors, thinking about errors, and learning from errors. Dealing with errors is a critical part of entrepreneurship and necessary to successfully complete the entrepreneurial process. The study underscores the critical role of error mastery orientation for benefitting from action-oriented training programs in the long term.
The study can be found here.
The study was supported by the German Commission for UNESCO, the BASF Stiftung as well as the STEP teams at the Martyrs University Uganda.
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