Getting the Measure of Employee‐Driven Innovation and its Workplace Correlates
Getting the Measure of Employee‐Driven Innovation and its Workplace Correlates
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衡量员工驱动的创新及其工作场所的相关性
DOI：
10.1111/bjir.12528
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发表时间：
2020
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G. Henseke
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作者：
Alan Felstead;D. Gallie;F. Green;G. Henseke
创新传统上被认为是一项涉及一小群高技能工人的活动。通过研究一项英国员工调查的结果，本文打破了这种做法。它有两个显著的贡献。首先，它提供了新的视角，让我们了解各类员工在多大程度上提出了改进他们使用的工作流程、生产的产品和提供的服务的想法。其次，它检查了这种行为的相关性。结果表明，员工参与程度、工作场所支持和发展的性质以及绩效管理与员工提出创新想法的意愿和能力密切相关。然而，近年来，这些工作的一些特征在英国有所下降，而与创新有关的经济成果——比如生产率的提高和更强劲的经济增长——已经停滞不前。
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.