Innovative workplaces
Subtitle: making better use of skills within organisations
Contributors: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Series: OECD innovation strategy
Publisher: OECD
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9789264095670; 9789264095687
Subjects: Employees; Training of; Organizational learning
Description: As human capital is the source of innovation, one of the policy principles of the OECD Innovation Strategy is to "foster innovative workplaces". Education and training systems must rise to the challenge of providing people with the means to learn and re-train throughout their life. Companies and organizations need to maximize the human resources they have at their disposal. Do employers make the best use of people's skills for innovation? Are some work organizations more associated with innovation than others? If so, are these organizations more widespread in some countries than in others? Are they associated with particular labor market policies, managerial practices, learning cultures or certain levels of education? What are the challenges for innovation within organizations? This volume shows that interaction within organizations - as well as individual and organizational learning and training - are important for innovation. The analytical tools and empirical results this study provides show how some work organizations may foster innovation through the use of employee autonomy and discretion, supported by learning and training opportunities.--Publisher's description.
Notes: "Centre for Educational Research and Innovation"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available online.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Defining learning organisations and learning cultures; title: Mapping learning organisations and their characteristics for the European Union; title: Measuring trends : the work complexity paradox; title: Behind innovation : employer and employee trade-offs; title: Conclusion.