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Workplace Innovation and Wellbeing at Work

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Workplace Innovation

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Workplace innovation promises to improve organisational performance, quality of working life and consequently wellbeing at work simultaneously. In this chapter the focus is on wellbeing at work, how this promise can be founded theoretically and how the connection of workplace innovation and wellbeing at work has been and can be integrated in policies in Europe. The relation between workplace innovation and wellbeing at work is well-founded, empirically as well as theoretically. It is argued that the ‘conditional approach’ (‘primary prevention’) is a more successful strategy to realise the workplace innovation promises than improving individual coping behaviour (‘secondary prevention’).

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    Frank D. Pot

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  2. Creative Peas, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  3. Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Frank D. Pot

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Pot, F.D. (2017). Workplace Innovation and Wellbeing at Work. In: Oeij, P., Rus, D., Pot, F. (eds) Workplace Innovation. Aligning Perspectives on Health, Safety and Well-Being. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56333-6_7

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