Entrepreneurship Education, School Culture and Organizational Commitment among High Schools in South Sumatra Indonesia

Abstract

The role of entrepreneurship in the education sector is required in order to achieve innovative institutes through various productive programs. In order to pursue a more developed country, Entrepreneurship Education (EE) is needed to create innovative characteristics and entrepreneurial talents whereby economic growth and employment are stimulated. Unfortunately, the entrepreneurship curriculum was a few to be implemented in South Sumatra. Likewise, this issue caused a lower school culture and also the commitment among the teachers in high school in South Sumatra. This study aims to examine thoroughly the influence of entrepreneurship education towards school culture and organizational commitment in those high schools. This research process involved a quantitative approach, whereby the survey was administered among 314 public school teachers and 329 private school teachers with the use of stratified sampling. A cross-sectional research design was applied, whereby the instruments used are entrepreneurship education, organizational culture, and organizational commitment. Descriptive analysis, correlation, T-test, and multiple regression were used to analyze the data based on the objectives of the study. The results have shown that entrepreneurship education has a significantly positive relationship in school culture and organizational commitment. The positive correlation value illustrates that the higher the entrepreneurship education, the greater the increase in a positive culture that will motivate the commitment of teachers in public and private high schools. The findings of this study can also be used by the Ministry of Education to identify the characteristics required by the entrepreneurship qualities, the influence of organizational culture, and the commitment of the organization as a benchmark for planning a better national education in the future.