Developing Workplace Innovation policies in the European Union
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Workplace innovation, as it developed from the beginning of this century in Europe, is a member of the Sociotechnical Systems Design (STSD) family (Mohr & Van Amelsvoort, 2016), going back to the restructuring of Europe after the Second World War, starting more or less the same policies for productivity and industrial democracy in several Western European countries. Although consensus about the definition of workplace innovation is growing worldwide, and its policy profile is getting stronger, other different policy concepts are being used to describe and implement more or less the same approach (Kesselring, Blasy, & Scoppetta, 2014). Examples include ‘innovative workplaces’ (EESC, 2011; OECD, 2010), ‘sustainable work systems’ (e.g.Sweden, New Zealand), ‘high involvement workplaces’, ‘high road’, ‘employeedriven innovation’ (e.g. Norway, Denmark) and ‘relational coordination’ (USA, Hoffer Gittell, 2016). Although the terminology might differ, all these approaches place a premium on employee participation and a better utilisation of the already existing human talent within organisations, primarily by (re)designing the organisation of work and tasks to enable people to be more effective and creative. Moreover, the shared objective of these approaches is to simultaneously improve the quality of working life (competence development, stress reduction) and organisational performance (productivity, quality, innovative capacity). Hoofdstuk 3.
TNO Identifier
952914
ISBN
978-3-030-59916-4
Publisher
Palgrave MacmillanPalgrave Macmillan
Source title
The Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Innovation
Editor(s)
McMurray, A.J.
Muenjohn, N.
Weerakoon, C.
Muenjohn, N.
Weerakoon, C.
Place of publication
Cham
Pages
41-56
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