Intrapreneurship Awareness Development for East Manufacturing Industries Employees in Thailand

Abstract

This study is a mixed method research with qualitative research and quantitative. The qualitative was conducted by using In-Depth Interview 6 key informants from governmental sector and 12 key informants from private sector. The quantitative was survey research with workers in East Manufacturing Industries in Thailand. The result of qualitative research revealed that the intrapreneurship awareness development had three components including human capital in terms of worker capital and administrator capital and acceptance and perception of outsider. The results of survey research was found that the support factors to be intrapreneurship awareness development correlated to intrapreneurship awareness development in terms of work appreciation and satisfaction with statistically significant at level of 0.05. Considering on each factors, it revealed that Management and Organization Motivation was the highest correlation with 0.663 and subsequences were Personal Competency, Transparency, Openness and Publicity, Organization Development, Working Place Environment, Innovation Motivation, and Personal Motivation with 0.661, 0.443, 0.431, 0.379, 0.334 and 0.271 respectively. Moreover, the support factors to be intrapreneurship awareness development correlated to intrapreneurship awareness development in terms of work appreciation and satisfaction with statistically significant at level of 0.05. Considering on each factors, it revealed that Management and Organization Motivation was the highest correlation with 0.594 and subsequences were Personal Competency, Transparency, Openness and Publicity, Innovation Motivation, Organization Development, Working Place Environment, and Personal Motivation with 0.585, 0.464, 0.431, 0.344, 0.317 and 0.334 respectively.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2013.v4n4p263