Managerial Competencies of Women Business Owners Singh Rashmi, Senior Scientist Division of Agricultural Extension, IARI, New Delhi-110012%. Email:rashmisingh@iari.res.in Abstract The present study aimed at finding out the critical entrepreneurial competencies established women entrepreneurs possess. These competencies help them to establish and manage their enterprises so as to earn profits and be successful. Entrepreneurial traits like initiative, opportunity seeking, self confidence, persuasion ability, assertiveness, influence, persistence, information seeking, concern for high quality (quality consiousness), commitment, sense of efficacy, systematic planning and problem solving, contribute to the competence of an entrepreneur and thus affect her entrepreneurial performance. It was found that in general, the respondents were found to possess high competence in thirteen entrepreneurial traits studied. Further comparison between the Low Profit Earners and High Profit Earners showed that HPE entrepreneurs were found to be having higher entrepreneurial competence scores than the LPE respondents. Low Profit Earning women entrepreneurs, thus, were found to be low in four dimensions: self-confidence, assertiveness, persuasion ability and influence. Systematic Planning and Initiative were in the medium range for both the groups. Initiative, Opportunities Seeking Behaviour and Commitment for Quality scores were found to be higher in Low Profit Earners than High Profit Earners. In respect of Efficacy and Problem Solving, High Profit Earners scored higher than the Low Profit-Earning members. Thus, the members of the two groups were found to have some intrinsic difference between them in entrepreneurial competence Top |