Title
Workplace innovation - maping the development in different scientific disciplines
Author
Oeij, P.R.A.
Dhondt, S.
Publication year
2022
Abstract
Workplace Innovation (WPI) is a concept that appears in several scientific disciplines. The definitions are quite different, but what all the definitions have in common is that WPI is a driver for the ‘advancement of work’ and contributes to a ‘good jobs strategy’. Or put simply: better jobs. Recently, we ploughed through all publications we could find on workplace innovation: more than 170! Not only scientific journal articles but also grey literature and several websites. In this blog we share our observations about four social scientific disciplines with ‘work’ as a central theme, namely sociology and organisation research, safety science and organisation research, economic strategy and human resources research, and psychology and behavioural research. Whether we see convergence in topics and interests between those streams is a question we had in mind. The figure below presents the four disciplines that look at workplace innovation and a good jobs strategy, and map the historical development. We will explain what four disciplines that look at WPI have to say. We try to identify the main ‘thought line’ in each of the disciplines. If there are shifts in the thoughts about WPI, we try to identify if there is convergence or divergence between the authors.
Subject
Employees
Innovation
Workplace
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TNO identifier
971122
Source
Beyond 4.0
Document type
article