Paper 2 · Enterprise Skills
A person who starts a business after losing a job is being driven towards enterprising by
Athe wish to have every working decision made by an employer.
Bnecessity, since no wage employment is available to them.
Ca legal duty placed on the unemployed to register a business.
Dthe certainty that a new enterprise will earn more than a wage.
Explanation: Necessity is the most common driver where formal jobs are scarce: with no wage coming in, a person turns a skill into an income. The pull drivers are different, being the profit motive, the desire for independence and the sight of a gap in the market, and none of them carries any guarantee of success.
Derived from ZIMSEC Business Enterprise Skills Paper 2, Specimen Paper, Q1