Employee-Driven Innovation: An Intervention Using Action Research
This article describes an intervention to design and test a method for employee-driven innovation and a model for learning among managers and development leaders. The empirical basis for the intervention focused on personal assistants in the home service within a municipality in Sweden. The interven...
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| description | This article describes an intervention to design and test a method for employee-driven innovation and a model for learning among managers and development leaders. The empirical basis for the intervention focused on personal assistants in the home service within a municipality in Sweden. The intervention was carried out using action research in on a series of workshops with a group of employees, managers, development leaders. Using a “stage” and “stands” theatre metaphor, employees engaged in collective, innovative learning “on the stage” combined with observations and reflections from managers and development leaders “in the stands”. This article contributes a method that can generate creative ideas among the employees and a model that can stimulate experience-based learning through observations. The intervention also shows that action research can be used to develop and test methods and models. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ac569124f14a42dbb7ba22b041ebdfb02022-12-22T01:14:35ZengCarleton UniversityTechnology Innovation Management Review1927-03212019-05-01954453http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1240Employee-Driven Innovation: An Intervention Using Action ResearchMats Holmquist0Anna Johansson1 Halmstad University Halmstad University This article describes an intervention to design and test a method for employee-driven innovation and a model for learning among managers and development leaders. The empirical basis for the intervention focused on personal assistants in the home service within a municipality in Sweden. The intervention was carried out using action research in on a series of workshops with a group of employees, managers, development leaders. Using a “stage” and “stands” theatre metaphor, employees engaged in collective, innovative learning “on the stage” combined with observations and reflections from managers and development leaders “in the stands”. This article contributes a method that can generate creative ideas among the employees and a model that can stimulate experience-based learning through observations. The intervention also shows that action research can be used to develop and test methods and models.https://timreview.ca/article/1240developmentdialogueideaslearningorganizational innovation |
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| title_short | Employee-Driven Innovation: An Intervention Using Action Research |
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