Workplace Innovation

Peter Oeij – holds masters of arts in history and sociology (Erasmus University, Rotterdam – NL) and a master of science in psychology (Open University, Heerlen – NL). He was affiliated to IVA Tilburg Institute for Social Research (Tilburg University - NL). He is now a senior researcher/consultant for TNO, The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research  (Leiden – NL) and Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Management, Science and Technology, Open University of the Netherlands (Heerlen – NL). The main topics of his work are innovation management, workplace innovation, social innovation, productivity, flexibility and working smarter, all are on the crossing point of organisation, management and personnel issues. His PhD thesis will deal with team dynamics in innovation projects.Diana Rus – Diana specializes in innovation management and leadership effectiveness. Prior to becoming Managing Partner at Creative Peas, Diana has worked as a management consultant in Germany, as an assistant professor in organizational psychology at the University of Groningen (NL) and as a visiting researcher at the Kellogg School of Management (USA). Diana frequently publishes her work in scientific and practitioner management journals, presents at various international conferences, teaches in executive education programs and performs research on the effects of leadership and climate on innovation, value creation and innovation in service ecosystems, the effects of HRM practices on innovative performance as well as on identifying HRM practices that are beneficial to embedding open innovation in organizations. Diana holds a M.Sc. In Organization Studies from the University of Tilburg (NL) and a PhD in Management from the Rotterdam School of Management (NL).    Frank D. Pot – is sociologist and emeritus professor of Social Innovation of Work and Employment, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He isChair of the Advisory Board of the ‘European Workplace Innovation Network (EUWIN)’ (2013 – 2017) and member of the Scientific Advisory board of SI DRIVE (Social Innovation Driver for Change; 2014 - 2018). He is publishing scientific and policy articles and being invited as an expert by trade unions, employers’ associations, government and EU-bodies such as DG Growth, DG Employment, EESC, European Parliament, EU OSHA, EUROFOUND. At the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) he was director of research at TNO Quality of Life (2005 – 2007) and director of TNO Work and Employment (1996 - 2005).  He was the first chairperson of the Partnership for European Research on Occupational Safety and Health (PEROSH) and member of the Planning Committee of the WHO Collaborating Centres Occupational Health. He was also board member of the European Association of National Productivity Centres (EANPC) and board member and co-founder of the Dutch National Centre for Social Innovation (NCSI). From 1991 – 1999 he was part-time professor of Work and Technology at the University of Leiden.

“The book is a product of the young culture of Workplace Innovation … . It is an anthology … . It has been written by pioneers, with a great degree of overlap and repetition. … It provides a reference handbook for aficionados … . Like motherhood and apple pie, Workplace Innovation is hard to oppose, but well worth encouraging.” (Richard Ennals, AI & SOCIETY, Vol. 38 (6), 2023)

• 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.