Strategic Direction: Volume 30 Issue 9

Work and organisations in 2020: The future we want?

The report aims to make the case for workplace innovation in an increasingly volatile global environment and outlines the opportunities for the creative and rewarding work that it…

Closing the gap: There is a gap, and it is not going away

This paper aims to examine the vast and growing body of evidence which shows that workplace innovation, practices which empower employees to make day-to-day-decisions, challenge…

Defining workplace innovation: The Fifth Element

This paper aims to introduce the ‘Fifth Element’ as ‘joint intelligence’ shared by all stakeholders in the workplace and at the wider economic and social level, and aimed at…

Case study: The Met Office

This case study aims to discuss how the Met Office developed a process for creating ideas that help people look at markets differently and bring people with diverse knowledge…

The impact of workplace partnership: Becton Dickinson

This case study aims to demonstrate how the fortunes of companies and plants can be turned around when management and unions work together to release the knowledge, experience and…

Rethinking tomorrow: A case study of Danish company Novozymes

This case study aims to describe Novozymes’ strongly embedded improvement culture and its tradition of employee inclusion. Novozymes is a biotech-based company, headquartered in…

“With every pair of hands, I get a free brain”: An interview with Professor John Bessant

This paper aims to discuss the interview held with Professor John Bessant conducted by Professor Peter Totterdill. John Bessant has been active in research, teaching and…

Enterprising behaviour in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS)

This study by Rosemary Exton aims to examine the Improving Working Lives (IWL) programme and finds significant variation in outcomes between 11 National Health Service (NHS…

Trade unions as knowledgeable participants in workplace innovation

This article aims to demonstrate that trade unions possess unique knowledge of how organisations really work and that they are repositories of experience embracing many different…

Interactive Theatre: Liberating employee-driven innovation

This paper aims to discuss how Interactive Theatre can be implemented and it also gives examples of it in action with feedback from clients. Unlocking employee creativity is one…

Public policy for productive and healthy workplaces

The paper aims to discuss different ways in which public policymakers can intervene to support workplace innovation. Government intervention and regulation in the economy and…

Unleashing workplace innovation

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