Workplace Innovation

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.

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.