Tenants’ Growth Mindset and Its Implication

Abstract

There have been significant amounts of research investigating growth mindset in entrepreneurship with various variables. This research describes tenants’ growth mindset and its implication in running the set-up business. The participants of the research were 27 tenants Entrepreneurship Development Program in Year 1, Year 2, and Year 3 of the program. An adopted questionnaire of growth mindset (Dweck, C. S, 2006) was used to obtain the data of the tenants’ mindset category. For triangulation, another open questionnaire consists of 7 items elaborating growth mindset were administered to obtain more comprehensive data. The team’s notes were also utilized to capture the students’ mindset, motivation, and teamwork. Based on the questionnaire, it was found that 70 % of the students possess growth mindset, and the rest has growth mindset with some fixed ideas. The data from open questionnaire showed that 93% of the tenants believed in their self-capacity, and other features to be labelled as having growth mindset such as seriousness, hardworking, and passion to be entrepreneurs. Similarly, notes of the team in Year 1, Year 2, and Year 3 confirmed that the participants with strong growth mindset are the tenants who are still running the business today. They were recognized as highly motivated and committed tenants from the beginning to the end of the entrepreneurship program. The reason why they remain stay in the business was because of the passion to be entrepreneurs. The implication of having growth mindset is that the tenants are persistent in facing challenges during the business set up. Growth mindset keeps them survive in the business.