Abstract:
Research on Corporate Entrepreneurship (CE) has focused exclusively on factors such as internal and
external factors at the expense of personal factors of employees who are central focus for new ideal generation.
Therefore, the study was designed to examine the relationship between employees’ personal characteristics and
CE. The employees of companies that are members of Manufacturers Association of Nigeria as at August
2014 constituted the population of this study. Accordingly, there were 826 companies registered with the
association as at 2014. However, a hypothetical sample of 658 was taken. Data were collected from Nigerian
manufacturing industry. Correlation analysis was used to analyse the data. Findings show that need for
achievement, risk-taking, and creativity/innovativeness have significant positive influence on CE. However,
self-confidence was found to have significant negative effect on CE at 5% level of significance. Two
employees’ non psychological variables, age and educational qualification were found to have significant
positive effect on CE at 5 % level of significance. The study therefore concluded that the higher the
educational attainment of employees, the more likely they will exhibit entrepreneurial behaviour. The study
recommended that organizations should ensure that age and educational qualification of employee take a
prime place at selection of employees.
