Corporate entrepreneurship within the Department of Correctional Services

M.Comm. (Business Management)The need for improved service delivery and new ways of using resources to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness in the public sector organisations requires government departments to be entrepreneurial. Corporate entreprepreneurship is the only weapon that could assist public sector organisations to shift from being bureacratic to being innovative and entrepreneurial. The increasing demands to find more cost-effective ways of serving the public, challenges all public sector employees to be entrepreneurial and innovative in delivering public services. The purpose of this study is to assess the extent to which corporate entrepreneurship is promoted and encouraged within the Department of Correctional Services (DCS), as one of the public sector organisations. The Corporate Entrepreneurship Assessment Instrument (CEAI) which was developed by Kurakto et al. in 1990 was used to assess the extent to which corporate entrepreneurship is promoted and encouraged in DCS. The assessment of corporate entrepreneurship in the DCS has shown that the department still has a huge responsibility of creating a climate conducive for corporate entrepreneurship. The assessment also showed that managers and non- managerial employees in the DCS need education and acquired awareness with regard to corporate entrepreneurship so that all employees can fully understand the benefit of corporate entrepreneurship in the department