Workplace Innovation: Theory, Research and Practice (Aligning Perspectives on Health, Safety and Well-Being)

Hardcover, xvii + 413 pages, NOT ex-library. Interior is clean and bright throughout, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Short gentle corner creases on a portion of leaves. Boards show short creases to corners and edges, a few scratches. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: 1 Introduction: The Need to Uncover the Field of Workplace Innovation; Part I Policy 2 European Policy on Workplace Innovation / Frank D. Pot; 3 National and Regional Policies to Promote and Sustain Workplace Innovation / Tuomo Alasoini, Elise Ramstad; 4 Why Industrie 4.0 Needs Workplace Innovation: A Critical Essay About the German Debate on Advanced Manufacturing / Jürgen Howaldt, Ralf Kopp & Jürgen Schultze; Part II Theory Matters & Evidence 5 Theoretical Approaches Supporting Workplace Innovation / Peter R.A. Oeij; 6 Evidence of Workplace Innovation from Organisational and Economic Studies / Steven Dhondt, Lander Vermeerbergen & Geert Van Hootegem; 7 Workplace Innovation and Wellbeing at Work / Frank D. Pot; 8 Workplace Innovation and Wellbeing at Work: A Review of Evidence and Future Research Agenda / Aditya Jain, Vlad Dediu, Gerard Zwetsloot & Stavroula Leka; Part III Research 9 Framing Workplace Innovation Through an Organisational Psychology Perspective: A Review of Current WPI Studies / Arianna Costantini, Riccardo Sartori & Andrea Ceschi; 10 Implementing Workplace Innovation Across Europe: Why, How and What? / Peter R.A. Oeij, Rita Ziauberyte-Jakstiene, Antonio Corral & Paul Preenen; 11 Workplace Innovation as Institutional Entrepreneurship / Helge Hvid & Vibeke Kristine Scheller; 12 Creating the Bottom-up Organisation from the Top: Leaders as Enablers of Workplace Innovation / Peter Totterdill & Rosemary Exton; 13 Lean as a Tool for Local Workplace Innovation in Hospitals / Liv Starheim & Peter Hasle; 14 Workplace Innovation Context in Poland: Between Structure and Agency / Marta Struminska-Kutra, Boleslaw Rok & Zofia Mockallo; 15 Workplace Innovation and the Quality of Working Life in an Age of Uberisation / Chris Warhurst, Chris Mathieu & Sally Wright; 16 Towards the High Road of Workplace Innovation in Europe? An Illustration of the Usefulness of the Dataset of the European Working Conditions Survey / Agnès Parent-Thirion; Part IV Practice 17 Towards a Total Workplace Innovation Concept Based on Sociotechnical Systems Design / Pierre van Amelsvoort; 18 Five Steps to Develop Workplace Innovation / Steven Dhondt & Sylvie Boermans; 19 Management Practices for Promoting Employee-Driven Innovation / Kare Hansen; 20 How Can Work and Organisational Psychologists Fortify the Practice of Workplace Innovation? / Maria Karanika-Murray; 21 Case Studies Can Support Definitions of Workplace Innovation in Practice / Fietje Vaas; 22 From Automated Defensive Behaviour to Innovation Resilience Behaviour: A Tool for Resilient Teamwork as an Example of Workplace Innovation / Peter R.A. Oeij; Part V Conclusion 23 Conclusion: The Way Forward with Workplace Innovation; Index -- This book focuses on workplace innovation, which is a key element in ensuring that organizations and the people within them can adapt to and engage in healthy, sustainable change. It features a collection of multi-level, multi-disciplinary contributions that combine theory, research and practical perspectives. In addition, the book presents new perspectives from a number of nations on policies with novel theoretical approaches to workplace innovation, as well as international case studies on the subject. These cases highlight the role of leadership, the relation between workplace innovation and well-being, as well as the do's and don'ts of workplace innovation implementation. Whether you are an experienced workplace practitioner, manager, a policy-maker, unionist, or a student of workplace innovation, this book contains a range of tips, tools and international case studies to help the reader understand and implement workplace innovation.…