Felstead, Alan;
Gallie, Duncan;
Green, Francis;
Henseke, Golo;
(2020)
Getting the Measure of Employee‐Driven Innovation and Its Workplace Correlates.
British Journal of Industrial Relations
10.1111/bjir.12528.
(In press).
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Abstract
Innovation is traditionally viewed as an activity which involves a small band of highly skilled workers. By examining the results of a British survey of employees, this article breaks with this approach. It makes two distinctive contributions. First, it provides new insights into the extent to which employees of all kinds come up with ideas about improving the work processes they use, the products they make and services they provide. Secondly, it examines the correlates of this behaviour. The results show that the strength of employee involvement, the nature of workplace support and development and performance management are strongly associated with employees’ willingness and ability to come up with innovative ideas. However, some of these features of work have declined in Britain in recent years, while economic outcomes often associated with innovation — such as increased productivity and stronger economic growth — have stalled.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Getting the Measure of Employee‐Driven Innovation and Its Workplace Correlates |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/bjir.12528 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12528 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2020 The Authors. British Journal of Industrial Relations published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | employee-driven innovation, employee involvement, training and learning |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10091397 |
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