Work Place Innovation

Welcome to this module- Employee Workplace Innovation where we will focus on innovation at the level of the individual employee.

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Innovation can be addressed at the organizational level with a focus on its outcome (i.e., product or process innovations) (Baregheh, Rowley, & Sambrook, 2009). Such an approach often centres on research and development, the innovation process, and, it also involves technical employees, top-level management and innovation managers. Thus, the focus of this approach is on decision-makers and those employees who are directly involved in the innovation process.

The past decade has seen a new school of thought that extends the scope of employee involvement in innovation across the organization, ultimately seeking to engage all employees in the workplace. This approach recognizes that all employees, regardless of their position, can add value to the organization through mobilizing new ways of working which are developed through workplace innovation as a

Social Process Social Process “denotes continuous, interconnected social activities and agency through collective action.” (Todorova, 2014, p. 2)

in the workplace (Oeij, Dhondt, Pot, & Totterdill, 2018).

 

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