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Intrapreneurship is considered as a contemporary concept to drive innovation inside an organization and achieve a competitive advantage in a complex and ever-changing business environment. Technology firms are particularly on the cutting edge not only to cope with the rapid changes in technology development but to lead the creation of innovative products and technological advancement. In such firms, engineers are expected to contribute significantly to the innovation process within organizations and bring real values to the marketplace. Technology firms are increasingly demanding their engineers to perform beyond their defined stereotypical responsibilities and operate actively as intrapreneurs. These organizations seek to promote intrapreneurship as a core business strategy and facilitate a supportive culture to enhance engineers' intrapreneurial behavior. However, researchers have not explored how engineers engage with intrapreneurship and how firms can develop the intrapreneurial capabilities of their engineers. The purpose of this paper is to explore how organizations can utilize engineers and drive their innovative initiatives so as to facilitate effective intrapreneurship. This study uses semi-structured interviews with engineers who are involved in innovative activities within their roles and work in different industrial sectors in the UK. The results indicate that engineers who are intrapreneurs show high motivation in their roles, demonstrate risk-taking in their strategies, and consider collaboration as a key approach for success. The findings re-emphasize the crucial role of engineers in providing alternative, valuable and robust solutions that shape the internal innovation of the company. Their proactive attitude towards organizational responsibilities and abilities to identify future opportunities are critical for sustaining innovation. Their intrapreneurial behavior depends on organizational factors and management support that shape their intrapreneurial attitudes and initiatives. The findings will help firms to get an understanding of the intrapreneurial potential of engineers and how to harness their capabilities by providing a supporting organizational framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper compares and contrasts attitudes toward relationship violence held by college students in the US and the UK. It examines whether students view male and female victimization and perpetration differently, whether they attribute blame differently based on the gender of the victim, and whether a varieity of other attitudinal variables impact upon these belief systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This will be a report on a major national public opinion interview survey on public attitudes to petty insurance fraud in the UK.This survey was sponsored by a major national insurance company and used a quota sample of 2,000 UK respondents plus follow-up depth interviews to investigate a range of issues:- the extent of self-declared petty insurance fraud (false or exaggerated claims and concealment of material facts from insurance applications)- public beliefs about the prevalence of such crime and the reasons for it- public opinions about potential solutions to the problem of petty insurance fraudThe survey was commissioned specifically as part of a planned anti-fraud publicity campaign and the response to the findings from the insurance company has been of interest to criminologists ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]