Improving management practices, work engagement and workplace innovation for productivity and wellbeing

本研究将采用一种创新的、多学科的方法来探索工作场所和工作设计实践如何影响员工的幸福感和对创新的参与，以及对这些问题的见解如何有助于解决英国的“生产力难题”。本研究旨在探讨以下因素之间的关系：(a)影响管理对有助于创新工作氛围的工作场所实践的支持的因素；(b)促进或限制员工创新的工作场所实践和工作设计特征（工作需求和资源）；(c)员工的工作投入；以及(d)员工福利、创新工作行为和员工驱动的创新成果之间的关系。这项研究汇集了一个研究工作场所创新实践如何支持创新工作行为的英国专业团队（Findlay, Lindsay, McQuarrie, Dutton, Burns, Roy），以及工作需求-资源（JDR）理论和工作投入（Bakker, Demerouti）方面的世界领先专家。该研究将在综合和整合这些先前不同的研究议程的元素方面具有创新性，利用具有组织心理学，职业医学，雇佣关系，组织研究和劳动经济学专业知识的多学科团队的见解，做出创新的概念贡献，开发和验证新的研究工具，并提供有影响力的研究成果。研究QUESTIONS1。哪些因素会影响工作场所实践的战略选择和管理支持，从而促成创新的工作环境？2. 工作场所的实践、创新的工作氛围、工作需求和资源以及员工的工作投入水平之间的关系是什么？3. 这些因素与员工幸福感、创新工作行为和员工驱动型创新之间的关系是什么？这些结果与企业绩效和生产率之间的关系是什么？改进的工作场所实践、创新的工作环境和工作参与对部门和国家生产力的影响，对企业层面的生产力有多大的好处？研究将包括开发、验证和部署创新的、定制的调查和案例研究工具，以捕捉工作场所实践与JDR、工作敬业度和员工成果（包括个人福祉、创新工作行为和员工驱动的创新）之间的关系，所有这些都是改变生产力的潜在重要因素。这些调查和案例研究工具将有助于在一系列行业的24个组织中进行深入研究。定性和定量数据分析将对决策、工作场所和工作设计实践、创新和福祉结果产生新的见解。我们将通过与所有案例研究机构进行以解决方案为重点的传播和参与，以及在四个机构中提供具体、深入的干预，分享这些练习的经验教训，并在促进创新的工作场所和职位设计实践中发挥实际作用，从而增强研究的影响。进一步的创新将利用该团队的经济建模专业知识，模拟创新绩效和工作场所创新带来的生产率提高对英国经济的潜在短期和长期影响。产出将包括一份最终报告、至少10篇针对各学科期刊的文章和一份多学科期刊特刊。通过一份以实践为重点的出版物，总结关键经验教训和大量在线内容，以及针对商业领袖、政策和行业利益相关者的5次“大师班”KE活动，将增强影响力。已成立的研究谘询小组（见支持信），以及吸纳商界、工会和政策界别的资深持份者，将有助扩大环境教育的影响。

AIMSThis research will adopt an innovative, multi-disciplinary approach to exploring how workplace and job design practices shape employees' wellbeing and involvement in innovation, and how insights on these issues can help address the UK's 'productivity puzzle'. The proposed research aims to explore relationships between (a) factors shaping management support for workplace practices that contribute to an innovative work climate, (b) workplace practices and job design features (job demands and resources) that enable or constrain employee innovation, (c) employees' work engagement, and (d) employee wellbeing, innovative work behaviours and employee-driven innovation outcomes that enhance productivity. The research brings together a UK team with expertise on how workplace innovation practices support innovative work behaviours (Findlay, Lindsay, McQuarrie, Dutton, Burns, Roy) with world leading experts on Job Demands-Resources (JDR) theory and work engagement (Bakker, Demerouti). The research will be innovative in synthesising and integrating elements of these previously distinct research agendas, harnessing insights from a multi-disciplinary team with expertise in organisational psychology, occupational medicine, employment relations, organisational studies and labour economics to make an innovative conceptual contribution, develop and validate new research instruments, and deliver impactful research outputs.RESEARCH QUESTIONS1. Which factors influence strategic choice and management support for workplace practices that contribute to an innovative work climate? 2. What is the relationship between workplace practices, innovative work climate and job demands and resources, and levels of work engagement among employees? 3. What is the relationship between these factors and employee wellbeing, innovative work behaviours and employee-driven innovation?4. What is the relationship between these outcomes and firm performance and productivity?5. What is the scope for any firm-level productivity benefits from improved workplace practice, innovative work climates and work engagement to impact sectoral and national productivity?METHODS, ANALYSIS AND OUTPUTSThe research will involve the development, validation and deployment of innovative, bespoke survey and case study tools to capture relationships between workplace practices and JDR, work engagement and employee outcomes including individual wellbeing, innovative work behaviours and employee-driven innovation, all potentially important contributors to transforming productivity. These survey and case study tools will facilitate in-depth research in 24 organisations across a range of sectors. Qualitative and quantitative data analyses will produce new insights on decision making, workplace and job design practice and innovation and wellbeing outcomes. We will enhance the impact of the research by conducting solutions-focused dissemination and engagement with all case study organisations and by delivering specific, in-depth interventions in four organisations, sharing lessons from these exercises and making a practical difference to workplace and job design practices that foster innovation. A further innovation will draw on the team's economic modelling expertise to model potential short-run and long-run effects on the UK economy of innovation performance and productivity gains flowing from workplace innovation. Outputs will include a final report, at least 10 articles targeting journals across the disciplines and a multi-disciplinary journal special issue. Impact will be enhanced though a practice-focused publication that will summarise key lessons and substantial online content and 5 'Masterclass' KE events targeted at business leaders, policy and sectoral stakeholders. The Research Advisory Group, already in place (see Letters of Support), and taking in senior stakeholders from the business, trade union and policy communities will help to maximise the impact of KE.