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Background: Attitude is the way a someone views something or has a tendency to act towards it, mostly in an evaluative way.

Attitude defined by cognitive phycology as the predisposition to respond in a generally favorable and unfavorable manner with respect to the object of the attitude (Ajzen 1987) Self-employment, is the process of work for ones own self instead of being employed by anyone or having salary or wage, this all involve risk of money , time and having all factor of production (land, labor, capital, entrepreneur) together , for earning profit. After the longtime, of comparative neglect , self-employment has again emerged as an significant yield to stable and strength the economic condition of country , the intractable unemployment rates of late 1970s and early 1980 , coupled unit of series of studies showing a higher job producing performance of small organizational (Birch 1987 , Storey 1987) but the self-employment does not only assist to eradication of employment it has been arranged that entrepreneurship and self-employment engendered by small business , essential to economic growth (Schumpeter 1934). Three constraints to self-employment have been prepared visible; lack of interest to change, lack of social support, incapacity to become self-employed. The problem: The aim of this research if to evaluate and investigate the students attitude towards entrepreneurship among female students of SZABIST campus, larkana. Main research question: What factors are require in attitude to be self- employed. What difficulties and hindrances involved becoming self-employed. What demographics and family background needed in self-employment .

There are many researches already been made on examining the attitude of students and their tend towards self-employment. Like, Students Attitudes and Intentions toward Entrepreneurship at Tallinn University of Technology by Urve Venesaar, Attitudes role in self-employment; Analysis of students attitudes towards self-employment using the Theory of Planned Behavior by Phillip Tretten 2005,. Learning Entrepreneurship Competencies: The Self-Directed Learning
Approach by Bird, B. 2002. International Journal of Entrepreneurship Education, 1, 203-227.

The objectives of study: To investigate the effect of entrepreneurial education on students attitude. To examines the attitude of female students to self- employment. Institutes role in promoting entrepreneurship. Evaluate demographic characteristics.

Justification: The beneficiaries of this study could mainly be SZABIST Institutes management, Ministry of population welfare, Ministry of women development, Ministry of industries and commerce, Firms and Organization, R&D firms, Businessmen, Future researcher. Scope of study: The scope of examining attitude of students towards entrepreneurship is immense, and thus could not be achieved entirely. Research only considers female students (postgraduate graduate) as end-users. The research will be conducted within a specified time-period of four month or a semester. The cost of study is not more than five thousand rupees; all the relevant resources like data of female students, access to SPSS, Statistical tool are used. Limitation: There can be error in selecting sample or sampling method accuracy, variables could be more effective. The time is limited due to nature of research; it is course project. The cost incurred is limited to five thousand rupees only. Researchs validity could be varied on board context due to reason of particularly focusing on female students of SZABIST larkana. The External factors of environment like weather, earthquake or rains could affect the flow of information or status of work. Assumptions: The research is to be conducting, assuming 1. The attitude of female students remains unaffected of external environment. Like trends, family decision or their own will. 2. All the traits are of females are same and remain unchanged. 3. All the level of audience and beneficiaries of study are equal intellectually. Key terms: Self- employment, Attitudes, intention, entrepreneurship, demographics.

Research Methodology: This study is going to be conducted among female students of bachelor and master program of SZABIST larkana by knowing the intention and attitude towards entrepreneurship through survey questionnaire, developed on basis of variables and would be according to likert scale. This study is descriptive and quantitative in nature.

Research Design: Research will be conducted through the questions made on the basis of variables. This research is based on quantitative and descriptive data. The study in three subjects: students attitudes and intentions towards entrepreneurship, characteristics of students personality traits and obstacles and support needs for starting business. The developed questionnaires would be surveyed from the respondents randomly at the SZABIST campus larkana. Procedure: There are some steps determined for conducting research, are as follows;\
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Development of Variables. Preparation of questions and questionnaire. Surveyed the questionnaire. Sorting the data. Compiling data by using SPSS. Analyze and interpret the data by using statistical tools. Findings and Conclusion

Population: All the female students of BS,BBA,MBA of SZABIST larkana, campus. Sample & sampling method: We are using non-probability, convenience sampling method. In which we will conduct survey form 50 respondents selected on-approach technique. Instrument selection: Questionnaire is used as instrument of measurement. It would be based on close ended questions with likert scale of 1=strongly agree to 5=strongly disagree. There would be several questions asked by the respondents on basis of variables. Variables: 1. Attitude. 2. Self-employment. 3. Demographics. 4. Personal traits. Hypothesis:
H1: Entrepreneurship course increases the willingness of students to start the business. H2: The role of SZABIST, Larkana to motivate the female students towards the self-employment.

H3: The correlation between entrepreneurship education and the willingness to start the business is stronger for: i) Gender. ii) Programs of study. iii) Work experience. iv) Parents occupation. Statistical tools: The researcher will use ANOVA to analyze the variance, other than that SPSS, M.S Office and M.S Excell would be used to determine the quantitative figures and evaluate them statistically. Research Schedule:

his explains the specific type of research instrument used such as questionnaire, checklist, questionnaire-checklists, structured interview, teachermade test, standardized instrument which are adopted or borrowed with permission from the author or from other sources. The parts of the instruments should be explained and what bits of information are derived. The establishment of validity and reliability should be explained and only experts should be chosen to validate such instrument. Specific and appropriate statistical test used should be given and the computed values derived. Interpretation should be included in the discussions. Statistical Treatment of Data

Explain how each statistical test is used in the treatment of data. If the research instrument included options which are scaled, explain how each scale is given the weight, its interval and class limits.

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