Abstract
Employee intrapreneurial engagement is considered to be one of the fundamental initiatives that can help organisations to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage in the midst of economic hardship and stiff competition particularly in a volatile and competitive business environment. The main objective of this study is to examine how employees’ intrapreneurial engagement initiatives would influence organisational survival. Few studies analyse how employee intrapreneurial engagement may foster organisational survival. In order to bridge this gap, we conducted a survey with three main manufacturing companies in Nigeria. A descriptive research method (Structural Equation Model (AMOS 22)) was applied to analyse the two hundred and fifty-nine (259) copies of valid questionnaire completed by the respondents using stratified and simple random sampling techniques. However, the study indicated that fostering employees’ intrapreneurial engagement have positive significant implications on organisational survival. This suggests that employees’ empowerment, involvement, autonomy, relationships and reward system have significant effects on organisational survival. It is therefore recommended that organisations should challenge their employees by providing them with autonomy and the freedom to innovate and carve out spaces for them to take risks and experiment. The insights discovered from this study would help to facilitate stakeholders to develop or foster employee intrapreneurial engagement and strong institutional strategies to ensure organisational survival.
Highlights
Organisations in the 21st century operate in a very competitive and volatile business environment as a result of rapid technological advancement, the influence of globalisation, and the need for concentration of employees with distinctive capabilities that can think out of box to proffer solutions to the challenges faced by the organisations via intrapreneurship initiatives (Bimpitsos and Petridou 2012, Obeidat et al 2014)
Employees’ intrapreneurial engagement was measured using Corporate Entrepreneurship Assessment Instrument (CEAI) developed by Kuratko, Ireland, & Hornsby (2001) with little modifications to suit the constructs of the subject matter
There was a positive relationship between employee relationships, involvement and intrapreneurial engagement estimated at (r = .051, p < 0.05) and (r = .144, p < 0.05) in that order
Summary
Organisations in the 21st century operate in a very competitive and volatile business environment as a result of rapid technological advancement, the influence of globalisation, and the need for concentration of employees with distinctive capabilities that can think out of box to proffer solutions to the challenges faced by the organisations via intrapreneurship initiatives (Bimpitsos and Petridou 2012, Obeidat et al 2014). It is worthy to note that organisations with concentration of employees with distinctive competencies, suitable working environment and well structure organisational settings should encourage employees with intrapreneurial skills to innovate and implement ideas that will make organisations attain sustainable competitive advantage (Domingo et al 2012, Lutfihak et al 2010). Engagement of employees via empowerment, involvement, autonomy, relationships and adequate reward
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