Background:
Having the individual characteristics of entrepreneurial employees in organizations is a unique asset that enables the organization to move towards entrepreneurship by using these capabilities more easily and with less investment and spending less time selecting and training employees.
Objectives:
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between entrepreneurial personality traits and entrepreneurship in district 1 Iran teaching hospitals.
Methods:
This cross-sectional study was performed on 946 staff of hospitals of medical sciences universities using census method in 2020. The instruments of measurement were standard enterprise entrepreneurship questionnaire and entrepreneurial personality traits questionnaire. Data were analyzed using the Pearson correlation coefficient and structural equation modeling using Smart Pls2 software.
Results:
The results showed a significant direct relationship between risk–taking and organizational entrepreneurship (r = 0.62). Also, there was a relationship between the component of internal locus of control with organizational entrepreneurship (r = 0.71), between the achievement component with organizational entrepreneurship (r = 0.68), and between personality traits of entrepreneurs with organizational entrepreneurship (r = 0.68) (P ≤ 0.05).
Conclusions:
Regarding the direct relationship between entrepreneurial personality traits and entrepreneurship, it seems that entrepreneurship will be improved and vice versa if identified and supported by entrepreneurial personality traits. Thus, making decisions that affect both of these variables will improve organizational entrepreneurship and achieve a healthy and entrepreneurial organization.
Keywords: Entrepreneurship,Personality Traits, Hospital, Internal Locus of Control, Risk-Taking, Achievement