Impact of entrepreneurial training on career outcomes: mediated by work passion in Pakistani business owners

Abstract

Purpose Passion plays a vital role in entrepreneurship, and examining the role of training in passion development is a recent call. This study aims to examine the impact of entrepreneurial training on occupational commitment and career satisfaction of business owners based on goal content theory. Design/methodology/approach In doing so the role of harmonious passion is tested as a mediating mechanism. A three-wave time-lagged data were collected from 351 business owners operating in Punjab, Pakistan and were analyzed by using SmartPLS. Findings The findings suggested that entrepreneurial training had a positive impact on building entrepreneurial passion, and as a result, they were found to be more committed and satisfied with their entrepreneurial career. The research has theoretical and practical implications for the role of training in the development of entrepreneurial career outcomes. Originality/value Despite a growing interest in entrepreneurial passion, only few studies have explored the entrepreneurial training on occupational commitment and career satisfaction of business owners in context of Pakistan.

Action-oriented entrepreneurial training and career resilience: a serial mediation model

“…The training group was far beyond the control group in IEO behaviour, entrepreneurial career adaptability and entrepreneurial career resilience. This affirms the notion that psychological interventions based on ART (Frese, 2009) result in positive behaviour (Glaub, 2009; Frese and Gielnik, 2016; Mensmann, 2017) and career outcomes (Hussain et al. , 2023).…”

“…The research has primarily focused on the impact of action-oriented entrepreneurial training programs on objective success factors leaving behind room for investigation of subjective success outcomes (Mensmann and Frese, 2019). Career outcomes are important in determining the success of any training program (Dominguez et al, 2022), specifically in the case of entrepreneurial training (Hussain et al, 2023). Therefore, the current study aimed to bridge the gap by introducing career resilience as a criterion of the IEO training program.…”

“…Hence, the current study has complimented and advanced the literature by making contributions to fill the theoretical as well as contextual gaps. First of all, we have extended the literature on APTP for entrepreneurship by introducing career-focused outcomes as called by Hussain et al (2023). In this way, we have emphasised the behavioural and result-oriented outcomes of entrepreneurial training programs (Dominguez et al, 2022).…”

“…These training programs have been successful and found to serve as a bottom-up approach to enhance socio-economic growth (Frese and Gielink, 2016). However, in Pakistan, the entrepreneurial training programs are business-related or lack a theoretical foundation (Hussain et al ., 2023). Moreover, mostly they are not evaluated regarding their impact on learning, behaviour and result-oriented outcomes (Khalid et al ., 2019; Shaheen et al ., 2019).…”

“…Career outcomes are important in determining the success of any training program (Dominguez et al. , 2022), specifically in the case of entrepreneurial training (Hussain et al. , 2023).…”