The Innovating Works team from Strathclyde Business School are putting on two dissemination events, showcasing the work they have been doing on improving the quality of work for employees and providing case studies on Scottish SMEs.
Workplace innovation is about getting the best from an organisation's key resources - people, processes and relationships - to deliver on organisational objectives and improve the quality of work for employees, creating better workplaces and better work.
It enables new ideas to be generated from within the organisation through high levels of collaboration that generate alternatives to 'business as usual'.
"Innovating works...improving work and workplaces" will showcase examples of good practice and successful workplace innovation, as well as the challenges workplaces face in becoming and staying innovative. Drawing on case studies in Scottish SMEs, it focuses on learning practical lessons from 'what works' in creating more innovative, fair and productive workplaces that deliver value to all stakeholders.
Innovating works is currently a pilot project on improving workplace innovation in Scotland currently funded by the European Regional Development Fund, Scottish Enterprise, the Scottish Funding Council and the University of Strathclyde, and supported by the Scottish Trades Union Congress and Skills Development Scotland.
The team comprises Patricia Findlay, Jill MacBryde, Colin Lindsay, Dominic Chalmers, Rachelle Pascoe-Deslauriers, Russell Matthews and James Wilson.
Event details:
Aberdeen
Date: Thursday, March 12
Time: 4.30-6.30pm
Registration, tea and coffee from 4pm
Venue: Robert Gordon University, riverside East Building, Room N118, Garthdee Road, Aberdeen, AB 10 7GJ
Admission: Free
Glasgow
Chaired by Sir Peter Housden, Permanente Secretary to the Scottish Government
Date: Tuesday, March 17
Time: 4.30-6.30pm
Registration, tea and coffee from 4pm
Venue: Technology and Innovation Centre, Level 1, University of Strathclyde, 121 George Street, Glasgow, G1 1RD
Admission: Free
To register for either Aberdeen or Glasgow innovating Works, event, please go to Sbs-workplaceinnovation@strath.ac.uk or www.innovatingworks.org.uk