Mentoring is a crucial aspect of entrepreneurial training and education (Sullivan, 2000; Regis, Falk, & Dias, 2007) and it is entrepreneurial education that is perceived as the solution that will turn South Africans from job-seekers into job creators (North, 2002). It is also hoped that entrepreneurship education will contribute to the ideal of empowering as many people as possible in order to unleash the previously stifled human potential of all South Africans (Hanekom,1995). Unfortunately, South Africans suffer from a ‘dearth of entrepreneurial acumen’, and this has resulted in the frequent lack of growth and high failure rates of businesses (Nieman, 2006; van Aardt & van Aardt, 1997).udIn order to measure the relationship between mentoring and entrepreneurial self-efficacy, an online questionnaire was sent out to Jewish entrepreneurs who are clients of ORT JET, a non-profit organisation that offers mentoring to entrepreneurs of the South African Jewish community.udThis study found that while mentoring does not have a positive perceived effect on the entrepreneurial self-efficacy of entrepreneurs, other factors-such as GSE and a supportive community-may have more of a positive impact on entrepreneurial self-efficacy.
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机译：指导是企业家培训和教育的关键方面（Sullivan，2000； Regis，Falk和Dias，2007），企业家教育被视为解决方案，它将使南非人从求职者转变为创造就业者（North， 2002）。人们还希望企业家精神教育将有助于实现尽可能多的人赋权的理想，以释放所有南非人以前被抑制的人类潜力（Hanekom，1995）。不幸的是，南非人遭受了“企业家敏锐性的匮乏”，这导致其经常缺乏增长，企业的失败率也很高（Nieman，2006； van Aardt＆van Aardt，1997）。指导与企业家自我效能之间的关系，向作为ORT JET客户的犹太企业家发送了在线调查问卷，该非营利组织为南非犹太社区的企业家提供指导。 ud这项研究发现，尽管指导确实不能对企业家的企业家自我效能产生积极的感知影响，其他因素（例如GSE和支持性社区）可能对企业家的自我效能更具正面影响。
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