Örgütsel Öğrenme ve Eleştirel Düşünmenin İç Girişimciliğe Etkisi Üzerine Bir Araştırma

Abstract

In order for businesses to survive in a competitive environment and adapt to changing environmental conditions, the learning element is inevitable in order to constantly produce innovative and creative ideas. While trying to respond to this change through learning, thanks to the critical thinking of the employees, work processes that prevent change is determined. Organizational learning leads the businesses to understand themselves and their environment by improving the critical thinking abilities of the employees, and ensures success in the competitive environment by revealing the intrapreneurial abilities of the employees. The aim of this study is to determine whether organizational learning activity and critical thinking skills have an impact on the intrapreneurship tendencies of the employees. Within the scope of the study, a questionnaire was applied to the employees working in the textile and automotive sectors operating in the Marmara Region. The obtained data were analyzed with the help of SPSS statistical program and LISREL structural equation program. According to the results of the structural equation model, it has been determined that organizational learning and critical thinking have a significant and positive effect on intrapreneurship. Accordingly, the increase in organizational learning and critical thinking levels lead to a positive increase on the intrapreneurship levels of the employees.