Employee Driven Innovation and Workplace Learning Welcome and Introduction

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Employee Driven Innovation and Workplace
LearningWelcome and Introduction

• Glenn Morgan
• Professor of Organizational Behaviour,
• University of Warwick

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The EDI Network Background

• Academic institutions and social partners from 14
  EU member states
• Cooperation business schools and schools of
  education
• Network was founded in Denmark between academic
  institutions, LO and research council
• Two network meetings so far since January 2008
• Cooperation on
• Funding bid under Framework VII
• Publication
• Conference organizing
• Continuing cooperation to establish central
  importance of employee driven innovation to
  future of work in the EU

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The EDI mission

• EDI focuses on how employees at all levels can be
  innovative in their daily work.
• By looking at different countries across the EU,
  the EDI network aims to identify
• features internal to the work situation that
  encourage EDI e.g. nature of work roles,
  incentive and appraisal structures, opportunities
  for learning, management style
• features external to the work situation that
  encourage EDI e.g. training provision, labour
  market regulation, taxation systems
• The comparative perspective will enable us to
  draw lessons for the EU and member states about
  how to facilitate EDI.

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Why EDI? Why now?

• As part of the Lisbon agenda and the goal of
  creating a knowledge based economy, member states
  need to develop and use its educated workforce in
  order to sustain competitiveness in the global
  economy.
• EDI offers an important and relatively
  under-explored contribution to that process.
• The EDI network has begun to initiate research on
  this topic.