Title
Effect of workplace innovation on organisational performance and sickness absence
Author
Oeij, P.R.A.
Vaas, F.
Publication year
2016
Abstract
Workplace innovation is an organisational capability, defined as a strategic renewal in organising and organisational behaviour. This capability may consist of four resources: strategic orientation, product-market improvement, flexible work and organising smarter. Workplace innovation is theoretically rooted in the resource-based view of the firm. Analysis of the NEWS 2008 survey shows that Dutch organisations are 'rather' active with workplace innovation, with profit organisations being more active than non-profit organisations. Social innovative organisations are mostly active with product-market improvement, while least with flexible work. Organisations being more active with workplace innovation more often report an improved organisational performance. Conversely, workplace innovation has no significant effect on sickness absence rates. The first conclusion is that the theoretical construct of workplace innovation is an appropriate measure for monitoring among organisations. The second conclusion is that the effect of workplace innovation on organisational performance is strongest if organisations are active on more than one resource simultaneously. Interventions in flexible work and organising smarter are assumed to be most promising, since these resources may realise a relatively substantial gain in the effect of organisational performance.
Subject
Life
SP - Sustainable Productivity and Employability
ELSS - Earth, Life and Social Sciences
Work and Employment
Workplace
Healthy Living
Workplace innovation
Social innovation
Resource-based view
RBV
Dynamic capabilities
High performance work systems
HPWS
Organisational performance
Sickness absence.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1504/wremsd.2016.073430
TNO identifier
530027
Source
World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, 12 (1), 101-129
Document type
article