Employee-driven innovation: a new approach

Employee-Driven Innovation. develops research within the fields of learning, innovation and employees at work. It is this unique focus on employees in relation to innovation and learning and vice versa, which distinguishes this anthology from many other conceptualizations of and approaches to innovation. It offers a unique perspective on the advantages and disadvantages of the processesof innovation that emerge in everyday working life, emphasizing an often overlooked driver of innovation, namely the employees and how they engage in various collaborative forms of innovation. It also stresses the link between learning, innovation and employees, in its exploration of practice-based forms of innovation in contemporary organizations. INDICE: Foreword; .T.Fenwick.PART I: THE NATURE OF EMPLOYEE-DRIVEN INNOVATION.Employee-driven Innovation: A New Phenomenon, Concept and Mode of Innovation; .S.H¸yrup.Employee-driven Innovation: Operating in a Chiaroscuro; .A.Teglborg., .R.Redien-Collot., .C.Viala .& .M.Bonnafous-Boucher.In Search of Best Practices for Employee-driven Innovation: Experiences from Norwegian Work Life; .T.M.Aasen., .O.Amundsen., .L.J.Gressgrd .& .K.Hansen.PART II: EMPLOYEE-DRIVENINNOVATION IN THE WORKPLACE MEDIATED THROUGH EMPLOYEE'S LEARNING.Creating Work: Employee-driven Innovation Through Work Practice Reconstruction; .O.M.Price., .D.Boud .& .H.Scheeres.Explaining Innovation at Work: A Sociopersonal Account; .S.Billett.Innovation Competency - an Essential Organizational Asset; .L.Dars.Employee-driven Innovation and Practice-based Learning in Organizational Cultures; .C.Hasse. & .U.Brandi.Employee-driven Innovation Amongst 'Routine' Employees in the UK: The Role of Organizational 'Strategies' and Individual 'Tactics'; .E.Waite., .K.Evans .& .N.Kersh.PART III: EMPLOYEE-DRIVEN INNOVATION UNFOLDED IN GLOBAL NETWORKS AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS.Moving Organizations toward Employee Driven Innovation (EDI) in Work Practices and on a Global Scale: Possibilities and Challenges; .M.Lotz. & .P.H.Kristensen.Exploring the Employee-drivenInnovation Concept by Comparing 'Innovation Capability Management' among German and Chinese Firms; .W.Fees .& .A.H.Taherizadeh.Privileged yet Restricted?: Employee-driven Innovation and Learning in Three R&D Communities; .T.Lempi. & .S.Yli-Kauhaluoma.Employee Driven Innovation and Industrial Relations; .S.De Spiegelaere. & .G.Van Gyes.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-27862-2
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 280
• Fecha Publicación: 29/06/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido