Workplace Innovation Fund Productivity Improvement through partnership and participation

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Workplace Innovation FundProductivity
Improvement through partnership and participation

• Briefing Seminar for Trainers and Consultants
• 24 April 2007

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Presentation outline

• National Centre for Partnership and Performance
• National Workplace Strategy and workplace
  innovation

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National Centre for Partnership and Performance

• Established in 2001 to
• support and facilitate workplace change and
  innovation based on partnership in order to bring
  about improved performance and mutual gains
• contribute to national competitiveness, better
  public services, higher living standards, a
  better quality of life and the development of the
  workplace of the future
• Identify and promote organisational
  characteristics and workplace practices and
  processes that promote high performance and high
  quality work environments
• Promote the National Workplace Strategy and
  characteristics of the workplace of the future

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Two Overarching Principles
Agile, customer-focused, knowledge-intensive,
networked and highly-productive
Fit and flexible organisations
Responsive to employees needs, involved and
participatory, continuously learning, proactively
diverse
Responding to the needs of workers
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National Workplace Strategy
Strategic Priorities

• Commitment to Workplace Innovation
• Capacity for Change
• Developing Future Skills
• Access to Opportunities
• Quality of Working Life

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Workplace Innovation Fund

• Momentum behind Workplace Innovation
• The Search for Innovation
• Aim of the Workplace Innovation Fund
• Examples of potential Fund activities
• Key principles and actions

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Building commitment to workplace innovation

• National Workplace Strategy
• Strategic priorities
• Increase commitment to workplace innovation
• Build capacity to change
• Develop future skills
• Improve access to workplace opportunities
• Improve the quality of working life
• Forum on the Workplace of the Future
• Vision of the Workplace of the Future

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The search for innovation
Investment in technology and RD is only one part
of a broader national system of innovation
Establishing the institutional basis for
innovation through linkages between government,
industry, research and education
Building capabilities in marketing and customer
service
Developing the capacity of workplaces to engage
in innovation and harness knowledge, skills and
expertise
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Workplace Innovation is about

• Finding new ways of doing old things in the
  workplace
• the design and adoption of new practices, new
  structures, new relationships and ideas in the
  development of products and services as well as
  operations and processes
• Success or otherwise depends on the degree of
  commitment to it and the level and quality of
  employee involvement
• Even if you are an RD business by building a
  commitment to workplace innovation youll be more
  successful at RD

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National Workplace Strategy

• Is focused on stimulating workplace and change
  and innovation
• Recognises the critical role of partnership and
  participation in improving organisations
• High Level Implementation Group
• 42 recommendations
• Recommendation 2 refers to the establishment of a
  dedicated fund to build commitment to workplace
  innovation

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Towards 2016

• The Government has agreed to establish a three
  year workplace Innovation Fund to enable the
  parties of this Agreement and the NCPP
• .to build a stronger commitment to workplace
  innovation by encouraging the development of new
  ways of working through partnership, aimed at
  increasing flexibility and improving performance.
  
• In order to maximise the value of the Fund,
  support for initiatives will be conditional on
  the learning and experience gained being shared
  with other organisations and with the policy
  community. The NCPP will develop case studies on
  the basis of these initiatives as exemplars for
  wider discussion.
• (P. 86 Section 6.3)

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Aim of the Fund

• 6m over three years starting 2007
• support SMEs that are seeking to build
  commitment to workplace innovation
• encourage and support those who might not realise
  the benefits of workplace innovation to engage
  with it and the activities that support it
• promote the development of the role of
  partnership and participation as enablers of
  innovation and change and productivity and
  service improvement

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Examples of activities

• Building strategic capacity for change
• Activities/initiatives that promote managements
  vision for employee involvement and participation
• Recognise employees as the thinking core of the
  company
• Open management styles that engage employees and
  facilitate communication and learning
• Working in partnership
• Activities leading to the implementation of new
  or revised work arrangements and processes
  leading to greater employee autonomy and
  involvement in problem solving and
  decision-making
• Team-working, new employee relations
  arrangements, processes for information,
  consultation and feedback

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Examples of activities cont/d

• Building commitment and loyalty to a better
  workplace which will drive the capacity for
  change and continuous improvement
• Creation over time of a culture of adaptation and
  change that utilises the energy and intellectual
  capability of all employees
• Prioritising learning and development and the
  quality of working life
• Introducing new HR processes to support the
  business and its employees
• Contribution to the development of new processes
• recruitment, performance management and
  development and retention

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Key principles and actions

• Building high performing, high quality workplaces
• Improve leadership and management capacity to
  proactively introduce and manage change
• Increase the level of employee involvement in
  decision making and problem solving
• Prioritise workplace learning and development
• Promote diversity and be responsive to employee
  needs
• Introduce and maintain good HR and performance
  management and development practices