Entrepreneural Motivation and Employment growth in Micro and Small Enterprises in Three Cities of Oromia State Ethopia An Explanatory Research

Abstract

Small business growth is a crucial stage in the small business development process. Small business newlinegrowth is a crucial stage because it helps to raise the supply of jobs. Small businesses continually newlinecreate additional jobs as far as they keep on growing. Entrepreneurial motivation is one of the newlinefactors that influences the growth of businesses. Many studies have been done on micro and small newlinebusiness growth in Ethiopia, particularly Oromia State. However, the number of studies on newlineentrepreneurial motivation was very limited. This study was designed to fill this gap. The study newlineaims to describe the entrepreneurial motivation of micro and small enterprise owners/managers newlineand identify entrepreneurial motivation source(s) that determine the employment growth rate in newlinemicro and small enterprises in three cities of Oromia (Adama, Bushoftu, and Shashemene), newlineEthiopia. The study also aims to uncover the personal characteristics of micro and small enterprise newlineowners/managers and the organizational features of the enterprises that significantly impact the newlineemployment growth rate in the three cities. newlineThe study was done on 286 micro and small enterprises chosen from the three cities. A single-stage newlinecluster sampling technique was employed to select enterprises included in the study. Enumerators newlinehired for the job collected the data from the owners/managers of the enterprises using a schedule newlinedesigned by the researcher. The collected data was analyzed through univariate, bivariate (Chisquare, newline newlinecorrelation, and ANCOVA), and multivariate (Multiple Linear Regression) analysis newlinetechniques using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences). newline