Promoting Workplace Development: Lessons for UK Policy from Nordic Approaches to Job Redesign and the Quality of Working Life

2005 ◽  
pp. 146-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Payne ◽  
Ewart Keep
Keyword(s):  
Working Life ◽  
Quality Of Working Life ◽  
Job Redesign ◽  
Workplace Development

scholarly journals Can High-involvement Innovation Practices improve Productivity and the Quality of Working-life simultaneously? Management and Employee Views on Comparison

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elise Ramstad
Keyword(s):  
Work Organization ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Organizational Practices ◽  
Quality Of Working Life ◽  
High Involvement ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Decentralized Decision Making ◽  
Workplace Development ◽  
Innovation Practices

This paper examines the association of high-involvement innovation practices (HIIPs) and simultaneous improvement of productivity and the quality of working life (QWL). HIIPs refer to work, managerial, and organizational practices that are intended for supporting continuous improvement and broad participation. The data are based on the evaluation surveys carried out by the Finnish Workplace Development Programme TYKES (2004–2010). TYKES was a governmental programme for promoting simultaneous improvements in productivity and the QWL in workplaces through changes in work, managerial, and organizational practices. Information obtained via two different surveys has been combined for the purposes of this article: a survey on HIIPs within a work organization (HIIP) and a self-assessment survey of project outcomes (SA). The survey material comprises altogether 253 responses from 163 different workplaces. The analysis provides evidence in favor of a view that publicly funded workplace development projects constitute appropriate means to support productivity and the QWL simultaneously. The results provide evidence that HIIPs, including decentralized decision making, competence development, internal cooperation, and external cooperation, are of importance when trying to gain better results in both productivity and the QWL from both management and employees’ point of view. In addition, the development process itself, that is, how the practices are implemented and good skills in project management, is highlighted. Concerning the supervisor’s supportive role in employees’ innovation activities, the picture is more mixed and surprising.

scholarly journals Workplace Development as Part of Broad-based Innovation Policy: Exploiting and Exploring Three Types of Knowledge

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuomo Alasoini
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Quality Of Working Life ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Knowledge Process ◽  
Organization Level ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
Workplace Development

This paper looks at the possibilities that a broad-based innovation policy contained by the national innovation strategy recently adopted in Finland opens up for the promotion of workplace innovations and examines the types of knowledge needed in workplace development. The author highlights the interconnections between workplace development and the prerequisites of both economic growth and the preservation of the Finnish welfare state. The paper also aims to explain why, in addition to the productivity of work, improving the quality of working life should feature as an increasingly important aim in the innovation policy of the future. An argument for the need of three types of knowledge in workplace development - design knowledge, process knowledge and dissemination knowledge - is made, together with an overview on new developments in each of those three domains. In conclusion, the author demonstrates how problems in the productivity of work and the quality of working life can be simultaneously tackled with at work organization level through two kinds of development approaches.

The new Finnish workplace development programme (TYKES-FWDP) as an approach to innovation

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuomo Alasoini
Keyword(s):  
Method Development ◽  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Learning Networks ◽  
Quality Of Working Life ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
Public Sector Organizations ◽  
Workplace Development

The paper surveys the background, aims, and content of the Finnish Government’s new working-life development initiative for the period 2004 to 2009. The aim of the new Finnish Workplace Development Program (TYKES-FWDP) is sustainable productivity growth, where increases in productivity are combined with improvements in the quality of working life. In addition to funding development projects in both companies and public-sector organizations, the program will promote method development, learning networks, and continuing education for researchers on working life. As an innovation policy approach, TYKES-FWDP represents a "broad systemic innovation policy" that focuses equally on all sectors of the economy and on the interaction and combination of technological, organizational, and other kinds of social innovations.

scholarly journals Happiness, quality of working life, and job satisfaction among nurses working in emergency departments in Iran

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Somayeh Javanmardnejad ◽  
Razieh Bandari ◽  
Majideh Heravi-Karimooi ◽  
Nahid Rejeh ◽  
Hamid Sharif Nia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Emergency Departments ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Life Questionnaire ◽  
Quality Of Working Life ◽  
The Mean

Abstract Background Nurses have a vital role in the healthcare system. One of the basic steps to increase their happiness is to recognize factors such as job satisfaction and quality of working life. Therefore, the goal of the present study was to examine the relationship between happiness and quality of working life and job satisfaction among nursing personnel. Methods This descriptive study was carried out on 270 hospital nurses who worked in emergency departments in Iran. Nurses were recruited through the census method. Data collection instruments included the Oxford Happiness Inventory (OHI), the Quality of Work Life Questionnaire (QWL), and the Job Satisfaction Questionnaire (JSQ). Data were explored using descriptive statistics, and stepwise multiple linear regression analysis. Results The mean age of participants was 30.1 ± 6.26 years. The mean happiness score was 38.5 ± 16.22, the mean Quality of Working Life (QWL) score was 84.3 ± 17.62, and the mean job satisfaction score was found to be 45.5 ± 13.57); corresponding to moderate levels of attributes. The results obtained from the ordinary least-square (OLS) regression indicated that happiness significantly was associated with economic status and satisfaction with closure (R2: 0.38). Conclusion Overall the current study found that nurses who work in emergency departments did not feel happy. Additionally, the findings suggest that their happiness were associated with their economic status, and closure over their duties.

scholarly journals Has the quality of working life improved in the EU-15 between 1995 and 2005?

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 399-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Greenan ◽  
E. Kalugina ◽  
E. Walkowiak
Keyword(s):  
Working Life ◽  
Quality Of Working Life ◽  
The Eu
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