Entrepreneurial Interests of Posyandu Cadres in Karang Berombak Village West Medan Sub-District Medan City

Abstract

This research is to gain an entrepreneurial mind-set and entrepreneurial interests among Posyandu cadres in Karang Berombak Sub-District of Medan Barat Medan in running entrepreneurship. The formulation of the problem is whether the entrepreneurship mind-set of cadres affects the interest in entrepreneurship or not. Methodology : This research is analytic with a questionnaire. There are 34 health cadres of total samples from 18 Posyandu (Maternal & Child Health Centre) which are situated in the Karang Berombak Village by taking sampling technique with purposive random sampling who selected from 18 Posyandu with the provisions've had entrepreneurial experience and has been already 3 years as cadres. Analytic form was used simple linear regression test to see the effects of the influence the mindset of the interest in entrepreneurship. Findings : The results showed that the entrepreneurial mindset affects the interest of entrepreneurship of Posyandu cadres in Karang Berombak village where entrepreneurial mindset consists of the desire to do business, understand finance and financial management, business ideas, a willingness to improve the business, willing to invest in training and to be able to see opportunities. That affects the interests of the entrepreneurial cadres is one of the potential entrepreneurs to boost the economy. Posyandu cadres are also expected to move in increasing family income and build a social entrepreneur from Posyandu.