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Despite the fact that creativity and solution-seeking activities to all times have been crucial for workplace progress, output and employee wellbeing, it is only in recent years that employee driven innovation has emerged as research theme in innovation literature. How to foster employee-driven innovation has been a theme of interest, both for researchers and for practitioners. In the Nordic countries, public sector is seeing EDI as a way of renewing its services, and additionally enhancing employee wellbeing. Based on findings in a longitudinal study of the implementation of EDI in Norwegian municipalities, there is reason to question whether the way EDI is implemented, actually can lead to less employee wellbeing through alienation.
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Lindland, K.M.F. (2019). When Employee Driven Innovation Becomes an Organizational Recipe – Implications for What It Means to Be an Innovative Employee. In: Bagnara, S., Tartaglia, R., Albolino, S., Alexander, T., Fujita, Y. (eds) Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018). IEA 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 821. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96080-7_62
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