Human Relations virtual special issue: The Quality of Working Life Revisited
This virtual special issue brings together a number of key articles published in Human Relations that focus on the quality of working life.
Workplace innovation and quality of working life – evidence from Poland
As demonstrated in the third and fourth European Company Surveys, workplace innovation cases in Central and Eastern Europe were less substantial compared to Continental and Western Europe countries.
Lortek @gite: Innovation in the workplace
In addition to adequate remuneration, people also look for their contribution to the company, opportunities to demonstrate their capabilities, grow professionally and see their efforts recognised.
Employee ownership: an enabler of workplace innovation?
Employee owned businesses generate higher levels of productivity by empowering staff to take decisions and feel valued to do so.
“Fostering workplace innovation” in the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan
EUWIN’s 13 partners' opinion paper argues that workplace innovation offers a comprehensive approach to creating the fair working conditions mentioned in the Pillar of Social Rights, launched in 2017 by the European Commission (EC).
Work engagement in human-machine collaboration
Human-machine collaboration is sometimes considered as the face of digital Taylorism, with workers becoming brainless zombies what, how and when to perform by their technological masters.
How digital technology is transforming the workplace webinar report
Hanne Shapiro, a renowned speaker and international consultant who was formerly a senior expert at the Danish Technological Institute exploreed successful digital innovation on this free webinar.
John Bessant: A Master of Masterclasses
Through Workplace Innovation Europe’s Fresh Thinking Labs platform, Professor John Bessant delivered an unconventional masterclass on the ‘Craft of Innovation’.
Fresh Thinking Labs: Helping each other to create better workplaces
Fresh Thinking Labs is just the platform to help release this pent-up creativity and to help transform frustrated managers into dynamic change agents and innovative leaders.
Workplace innovation’s spillover into community and political participation
Is it true that a discontented worker is a discontented citizen? Does job quality make a difference in terms of participation in the neighbourhood and in politics? Well, looking at recent research the answer to both questions is “yes”.