Research into business organization employees’ entrepreneurial qualities as their intrapreneurial behavior development factor

Introduction. A key condition for the effective functioning of modern business organizations is the development of intrapreneurship, which involves the formation of employees' ability to initiative, innovative and risk-oriented behavior.Aim: to empirically investigate the level of development of business organization employees' entrepreneurial qualities and their impact on intrapreneurial behavior.Methods: Employee Intrapreneurship Scale (EIS-UA), GET TEST, descriptive statistics methods, correlation and variance analyses.Results: the analysis showed that creativity and the ability to take a balanced risk were the most significant determinants of intrapreneurial behavior, which affected both strategic renewal and venture activity. The need for achievement had a moderate impact, while autonomy and purposefulness demonstrated a weak or statistically insignificant effect. The results emphasized the leading role of creative-cognitive and risk-oriented characteristics of employees in the formation of intrapreneurial activity.Conclusions: intrapreneurial behavior of business organization employees is determined primarily by their creativity and the ability to take calculated risks. The need for achievement has an additional limited impact, while autonomy and purposefulness play a minimal role. The results of the study outline key psychological guidelines for the development of intrapreneurial programs and stimulation of innovative activity of employees in modern organizations