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Social Innovation of Work and Employment

Authors : Frank Pot, Steven Dhondt, Peter Oeij

Published in: Challenge Social Innovation

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Social innovation of work and employment are prerequisites to achieve the EU2020 objectives of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. It covers labour market innovation on societal level and workplace innovation on organisational level. This paper focuses on the latter. Workplace innovations are social both in their ends (quality of working life, well-being and development of talents together with organisational performance) and in their means (employee participation and empowerment). Complementary to technological innovations they regard innovations in social aspects of organisations such as work organisation, HRM and work relations. Workplace innovation – or innovative workplaces as it is sometimes called – deserves to be better incorporated in EU policies, as also has been recommended by the European Economic and Social Committee and the OECD. Some countries have experienced the benefits of national campaigns already.

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Title: Social Innovation of Work and Employment
Authors: Frank Pot
Steven Dhondt
Peter Oeij
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book: Challenge Social Innovation
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-32878-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-642-32879-4

Copyright Year: 2012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32879-4_16