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

AIMS他的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塑造员工的幸福感和创新参与度，以及对这些问题的见解如何有助于解决英国的“生产率之谜”。拟议的研究旨在探索(A)形成有助于创新工作环境的工作场所做法的管理支持的因素，(B)促进或限制员工创新的工作场所做法和工作设计特征(工作需求和资源)，(C)员工的工作敬业度，以及(D)提高生产率的员工幸福感、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英国团队，他们在工作场所创新实践如何支持创新工作行为方面拥有专业知识(芬德利、林赛、麦夸里、达顿、伯恩斯、罗伊)，以及工作需求-资源(JDR)理论和工作投入方面的世界领先专家(巴克、德默鲁提)。这项研究将在综合和整合这些以前不同的研究议程的要素方面具有创新性，利用一个拥有组织心理学、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，以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结果。哪些因素影响对有助于创新工作氛围的工作场所实践的战略选择和管理支持？2.工作场所实践、创新工作氛围、工作需求和资源与员工的工作敬业度水平之间有什么关系？3.这些因素与员工幸福感、创新工作行为和员工驱动的创新之间有什么关系？4.这些结果与公司业绩和生产率之间有什么关系？5.改善工作场所实践、创新工作氛围和工作敬业度对部门和国家生产率的影响范围有多大？方法、分析和研究将涉及创新、定制调查和案例研究工具，以捕捉工作场所实践和JDR、工作敬业度和员工结果之间的关系，包括个人幸福感、创新工作行为和员工驱动的创新，所有这些都可能对转变生产率做出重要贡献。这些调查和案例研究工具将有助于在不同部门的24个组织中进行深入研究。定性和定量的数据分析将对决策、工作场所和工作设计实践以及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组织开展以解决方案为重点的传播和参与，并通过在四个组织中提供具体、深入的干预措施，分享这些练习的经验教训，并对促进创新的工作场所和工作设计实践产生实际影响，来增强研究的影响。进一步的创新将利用该团队的经济建模专业知识，对工作场所创新带来的创新绩效和生产率提高对英国经济的潜在短期和长期影响进行建模。产出将包括一份期末报告，至少10篇针对各学科期刊的文章，以及一期多学科期刊特刊。通过以实践为重点的出版物总结主要经验教训和大量在线内容，以及针对企业领导人、政策和部门利益攸关方的5个“大师班”KE活动，将增强影响力。已经成立的研究咨询小组(见支持信)，并吸收来自商业、工会和政策界的高级利益攸关方，将有助于最大限度地发挥KE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.