LESSONS OF CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR MOTIVATING PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYEES

This paper addresses the question of what can public sector organizations learn from corporate entrepreneurship to create a more motivating work environment to foster discretionary work effort of employees. A new measurement scale of key non-monetary working conditions (called net perquisites) is developed. This study empirically tests the factor structure of the two dimensions of net perquisites, perks and irks. It postulates that perks and irks each have at least four factors. The findings suggest that perks has five dimensions and irks three dimensions, similar to those suggested in the literature. It was also determined that net perquisites is a higher order construct comprised of perks and irks.