Individual Assignment – critical and reflective ess ay (40%) “Successful entrepreneurship is often associated with the possession of special enterprising and managerial qualities and traits. In part one, critically discuss this issue with special reference to relevant literature and the evolution of tests of entrepreneurial tendency. In part two, take the GET test, and use it to critically assess your natural potential as an entrepreneur”. Word limits 2,000 words excluding appendix with your GET TEST results. Supporting information: There are a number of enterprise tendency tests designed to establish how entrepreneurial or enterprising you are. One version that was very popular in the 1980s and 1990s was the GET test – (General Enterprising Tendency) developed by Dr Sally Caird at Durham University. This is displayed and fully described in the following website: http://get2test/test/index.htm In preparation for the assignment: 1. Take the GET test and print out its assessment of how enterprising you are. 2. Read all sections of the website, particularly those sections that tell you the problems

with this kind of tests, how the test was developed, and how they tried to overcome these problems. Also those sections that describe the kinds of traits measured by the tests: − need for achievement − need for autonomy − creative tendency − risk taking − locus of control

Read Testing Enterprising Tendency In Occupational Groups. Full Text Available By: Caird,

Sally. British Journal of Management, Dec91, Vol. 2 Issue 4, p177, 10p, 3 charts; (AN 4526675). Full paper is available in the Library as a PDF in Business Source Premier.