1st Edition
Entrepreneurial Attributes Accessing Your Inner Entrepreneur for Business and Beyond
Everybody wants their employer to recognise and value the skills and attributes they have, but not everybody feels those skills are valued. Entrepreneurial Attributes: Accessing Your Inner Entrepreneur for Business and Beyond looks at the link between skills, actions and attributes, and the value they present: value in terms of how an employee can be more valuable to the company they work for – in essence, more employable. The book aims to answer the question: why are entrepreneurial attributes we see in businesspeople valued, but in non-businesspeople they are sometimes not recognised when there is a clear link between entrepreneurial skills and attributes, human capital (effectively your CV) and how successfully a company performs?
Entrepreneurial Attributes: Accessing Your Inner Entrepreneur for Business and Beyond discusses how we currently view skills, actions and attributes, and how those attributes add value to a person in life and to a business that person works for. The author questions whether certain skills and actions are unrecognised or neglected in today’s world, and uses case studies and research methodologies to illustrate how value can be recognised and appreciated within the context of human capital and firm performance. Finally, the book offers tools and strategies which may assist the reader in gaining a better understanding of the way in which their entrepreneurial actions and attributes can enhance their value as a person and also make them more employable. This book also offers businesses tools to better recognise and reward the skills it needs.
The ideal audience for this book are those of us who wish to better evidence the skills and value we can offer a company; Entrepreneurial Attributes: Accessing Your Inner Entrepreneur for Business and Beyond will find an appreciative audience wherever there is a keen interest in the recognition and value of employee skills and attributes.
1. The reflexive journey – the origins of the book
· Understanding different perspectives
· Reflections section
· Reader’s reflections
2. Being an entrepreneur and being entrepreneurial, what’s the difference?
· What is enterprise and what is entrepreneurship?
· Understanding entrepreneurial actions
· Personal reflection to appreciate your own entrepreneurial behaviours
· Reflections section
· Reader’s reflections
3. What is value?
· What is human capital, and why does it matter?
· How do we measure the individual in ‘human capital’?
· Understanding one’s value in human capital and reflecting
· Human capital, work-life balance and company performance
· Reflections section
· Reader’s reflections
4. How do we understand actions and attributes in context?
· Case studies showing the value in entrepreneurial behaviours
· Does human capital have a positive influence on firm performance?
· Reflections section
· Reader’s reflections
5. Skills, attributes, and human actions are neglected because they are unrecognised
· Let’s give them a name – welcome to the parapreneur
· Reflections section
· Reader’s reflections
6. What can be done about it?
· The lens of the employee
· The lens of the employer
· The lens of the business owner
· Reflections section
· Reader’s reflections
Biography
Andrew Paul Clarke has worked in engineering and science, and now in academia, for the past 30 years. He is an academic in a UK university, and has a PhD in metallurgy and materials science from UMIST and an MBA from Sheffield Hallam University. His expertise is in understanding how enterprise and entrepreneurship theories can be understood and applied in different ways by people with different experiences and skillsets, such those from humanities, arts, health, science or engineering backgrounds.
