Liderazgo juvenil universitario marcando oportunidades laborales a través del emprendimiento social

Abstract

Faced with the significant youth unemployment rate, young university students have seen in social entrepreneurship, a viable and coherent solution with their aspirations where leadership plays a decisive role in the development of their projects, hence the aim of this article to analyze the effect of leadership styles on the social entrepreneurial intention of young people from the University of Cuenca from the Full Range Theory, since it presents an integrative model for its analysis. Methodologically, a mixed quantitative-qualitative design is used, using the survey and interview as information gathering techniques. Analysis techniques are used for data processing: descriptive statistics, one-factor ANOVA analysis, multiple regression analysis, and discourse analysis. Thus, it was found that young university students who work have a greater social entrepreneurial intention, leadership styles have extremely significant differences in the social entrepreneurial intention of male students and very significant differences in the case of female students, in addition to the styles of Leadership explains the social entrepreneurial intention by 20% and finally, the three leadership styles explain the result of extra effort and transformational and transactional leadership the results of: satisfaction and effectiveness. With this information, the hypothesis that those who exercise transformational leadership have a greater social entrepreneurial intention is verified. For this reason, it is recommended to deepen research in these areas and promote their training in the university environment.