Workplace Innovation: Theory, Research and Practice (Aligning Perspectives on Health, Safety and Well-Being)

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 perspectives. In addition, the book presents new perspectives from a number of nations on policies with novel theoretical approaches to workplace innovation, as well as international case studies on the subject. These cases highlight the role of leadership, the relation between workplace innovation and well-being, as well as the do’s and don’ts of workplace innovation implementation. Whether you are an experienced workplace practitioner, manager, a policy-maker, unionist, or a student of workplace innovation, this book contains a range of tips, tools and international case studies to help the reader understand and implement workplace innovation. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Introduction: The Need to Uncover the Field of Workplace Innovation....Pages 1-8 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 European Policy on Workplace Innovation....Pages 11-26 National and Regional Policies to Promote and Sustain Workplace Innovation....Pages 27-44 Why Industrie 4.0 Needs Workplace Innovation—A Critical Essay About the German Debate on Advanced Manufacturing....Pages 45-60 Theoretical Approaches Supporting Workplace Innovation....Pages 63-78 Evidence of Workplace Innovation from Organisational and Economic Studies....Pages 79-94 Workplace Innovation and Wellbeing at Work....Pages 95-110 Workplace Innovation and Wellbeing at Work: A Review of Evidence and Future Research Agenda....Pages 111-128 Front Matter....Pages 129-129 Framing Workplace Innovation Through an Organisational Psychology Perspective: A Review of Current WPI Studies....Pages 131-147 Implementing Workplace Innovation Across Europe: Why, How and What?....Pages 149-169 Workplace Innovation as Institutional Entrepreneurship....Pages 171-187 Creating the Bottom-up Organisation from the Top: Leaders as Enablers of Workplace Innovation....Pages 189-207 Lean as a Tool for Local Workplace Innovation in Hospitals....Pages 209-225 Workplace Innovation and the Quality of Working Life in an Age of Uberisation....Pages 227-243 Towards the High Road of Workplace Innovation in Europe? An Illustration of the Usefulness of the Dataset of the European Working Conditions Survey....Pages 245-259 Front Matter....Pages 261-277 Towards a Total Workplace Innovation Concept Based on Sociotechnical Systems Design....Pages 279-279 Five Steps to Develop Workplace Innovation....Pages 281-299 Management Practices for Promoting Employee-Driven Innovation....Pages 301-319 How Can Work and Organisational Psychologists Fortify the Practice of Workplace Innovation?....Pages 321-338 Front Matter....Pages 339-353 Case Studies Can Support Definitions of Workplace Innovation in Practice....Pages 279-279 From Automated Defensive Behaviour to Innovation Resilience Behaviour: A Tool for Resilient Teamwork as an Example of Workplace Innovation....Pages 355-373 Front Matter....Pages 375-396 Conclusion: The Way Forward with Workplace Innovation....Pages 397-397 Back Matter....Pages 399-410 ....Pages 411-413