Project title: Fostering Innovative Work Behaviour of Public Employees by Using Work Design Interventions
Project acronym: INPUBWORK
Project code: UIP-2014-09-3909
Project duration: 1st June 2015 - 31st May 2018
Project manager: Tomislav Hernaus, PhD, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb
Project members: Nina Pološki Vokić, PhD, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb
Miha Škerlavaj, PhD BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo
Matej Černe, PhD Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana
Ana Aleksić, PhD Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb
Maja Tadić, PhD Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Zagreb
PROJECT SUMMARY:
Optimally utilizing the innovative potential of employees has become a major human resource challenge within the global and highly competitive business environment. Recent studies have confirmed job characteristics as a critical antecedent and a driving force for innovative work behaviour. However, we still know little about how work characteristics change over time, how they interact, which are the most important ones and how they can be successfully changed. Innovative work behaviour is especially needed and understudied within state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Their employees are largely unmotivated and unproductive, and organizations are ineffective and non-competitive. Such negative work attitudes and practices hinder innovative work behaviour and result in non-adequate business results. As a part of the project, an in-depth research on work design practices will be carried out in the Croatian public sector. Longitudinal and quasi-experimental research design envisions tailored job interventions at the micro level in a real-life work setting. Particular set of job characteristics will be modified and aligned with personal- and job-related characteristics of public employees, what should provide and assure increased level of idea generation and, in the end, result in more frequent process improvements within sampled public companies.
CURRENT PROJECT ACTIVITIES:
- development of the research instrument
Project acronym: INPUBWORK
Project code: UIP-2014-09-3909
Project duration: 1st June 2015 - 31st May 2018
Project manager: Tomislav Hernaus, PhD, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb
Project members: Nina Pološki Vokić, PhD, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb
Miha Škerlavaj, PhD BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo
Matej Černe, PhD Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana
Ana Aleksić, PhD Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb
Maja Tadić, PhD Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Zagreb
PROJECT SUMMARY:
Optimally utilizing the innovative potential of employees has become a major human resource challenge within the global and highly competitive business environment. Recent studies have confirmed job characteristics as a critical antecedent and a driving force for innovative work behaviour. However, we still know little about how work characteristics change over time, how they interact, which are the most important ones and how they can be successfully changed. Innovative work behaviour is especially needed and understudied within state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Their employees are largely unmotivated and unproductive, and organizations are ineffective and non-competitive. Such negative work attitudes and practices hinder innovative work behaviour and result in non-adequate business results. As a part of the project, an in-depth research on work design practices will be carried out in the Croatian public sector. Longitudinal and quasi-experimental research design envisions tailored job interventions at the micro level in a real-life work setting. Particular set of job characteristics will be modified and aligned with personal- and job-related characteristics of public employees, what should provide and assure increased level of idea generation and, in the end, result in more frequent process improvements within sampled public companies.
CURRENT PROJECT ACTIVITIES:
- development of the research instrument