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Building Better Programmes: Learning Networks in the Promotion of Workplace Innovation

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  • Tuomo Alasoini

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This paper starts by providing a generic conceptual framework to improve understanding of critical success factors for the social effectiveness of programmes that promote workplace innovation. Thereafter, the paper shows how this framework can be applied in making choices about the content of projects in the programmes. A distinction is made between user-oriented, method-based, and learning network types of project. The three types are examined and compared, in terms of their ability to provide four kinds of outcomes, programme learning and policy learning. The pa-per also shows how learning networks can be applied to overcome some of the problems involved in the two other types of project. In elaborating the argument, the author makes use of the experiences gained from the implementation of learning network projects in the Finnish Workplace Development Programme TYKES.

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  • Tuomo Alasoini, 2008. "Building Better Programmes: Learning Networks in the Promotion of Workplace Innovation," International Journal of Action Research, Rainer Hampp Verlag, vol. 4(1+2), pages 62-89.
    • Handle: RePEc:rai:ijares:doi_10.1688/1861-9916_ijar_2008_01_alasoini
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    Keywords

    development programme; learning network; reflexive benchmarking; work organization; workplace innovation;
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    JEL classification:

    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J53 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Labor-Management Relations; Industrial Jurisprudence
    • P10 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - General

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