Workplace Innovation Theory, Research and Practice /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Oeij, Peter (Editor), Rus, Diana (Editor), Pot, Frank D. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Aligning Perspectives on Health, Safety and Well-Being,
• Subjects: Psychology.; Personnel management.; Economic sociology.; Industrial and Organizational Psychology.; Human Resource Management.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.

This book focuses on workplace innovation, which is a key element in ensuring that organizations and the people within them can adapt to and engage in healthy, sustainable change. It features a collection of multi-level, multi-disciplinary contributions that combine theory, research and practical pe...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction:  the need to uncover the field of workplace innovation
• Part 1: Policy
•  2. European policy on workplace innovation 
• 3. National and regional policies to promote and sustain workplace innovation
• 4. Why Industrie 4.0  needs workplace innovation – a critical essay about the German debate on advanced manufacturing. Part 2: Theory Matters & Evidence
• 5. Theoretical approaches supporting workplace innovation
• 6. Evidence of Workplace Innovation from organisational and economic studies
• 7. Workplace innovation and well-being at work. – 8. Workplace innovation and wellbeing at work: A review of evidence and future research agenda.  Part 3: Research
• 9. Framing Workplace Innovation through an organisational psychology perspective: A review of current WPI studies
• 10. Implementing Workplace Innovation across Europe: Why, how and what?
•  11. Workplace Innovation as Institutional Entrepreneurship
• 12. Creating the bottom-up organisation from the top: Leaders as enablers of workplace innovation
• 13. Lean as a tool for local workplace innovation in hospitals
• 14. Workplace innovation context in Poland: between structure and agency
• 15. Workplace Innovation and the Quality of Working Life in an Age of Uberisation
• 16. Towards the high road of Workplace innovation in Europe? An illustration of the usefulness of the dataset of the European Working Conditions Survey. Part 4: Practice. -17. Towards a Total Workplace Innovation Concept based on SocioTechnical Systems Design.-18. Five steps to develop Workplace Innovation. - 19. Management practices for promoting employee-driven innovation. - 20. How can work and organizational psychologists fortify the practice of workplace innovation? - 21. Case studies can support definitions of workplace innovation in practice.-22. From automated defensive behaviour to innovation resilience behaviour: A tool for resilient teamwork as an example of workplace innovation.  Conclusion: The way forward with workplace innovation.