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iDocQ 2018 20x20 presentation - Lyndsey Middleton
1. Enhancing the capacity for
workplace learning and
innovation in Scotland
Twitter: @Middleton_LyEmail: L.Middleton@napier.ac.uk PhD blog: lyndseyjenkins.org
Presented by:
Lyndsey Middleton
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Supervised by: Professor Hazel Hall, Dr Laura Muir and Professor Robert Raeside
Edinburgh Napier University
iDocQ 8
3rd May 2018
2. SGSSS PhD Intern
• Directorate for Health
and Social Care
Integration
• e-Health Division
• Policy & Strategy team
• Mobile Working
Technologies Project
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10. ANOVA = differences between groups REGRESSION = predictions
Community Innovation Survey
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11. Factors that influence innovation
Groups of clustered countries differed in types of innovation they
presented
Organisational innovation
All types of innovation
combined
Product innovation
Process innovation
High level investment
Medium level investment
Low level investment
Marketing innovation
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12. Factors that influence innovation
Groups of clustered countries differed in factors that could
influence innovation
research and development
expenditure
external international
collaboration
vocational training
international markets
High level investment
Medium level investment
Low level investment
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18. Findings…
• Information literacy
• Multiple information
sources
• Interactive information
sources
• Amount and trust of
information
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The River Aura, Turku
19. Findings… not for the PhD!
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Edinburgh Newcastle London Helsinki Turku
Introduce self
PhD student
Final year
Write up stage
Data collection complete
Will give an overview of my work
Expalin some of the results form one case study
Currently not working on PhD
SGSSS intern
E-Health division
Policy and strategy team
Explain mobile working technologies project
But for one day only (until end of June when my internship ends) im back to being a PhD student and ill be talking about my doctoral work in this 20x20 presentation
Make comment about stars in their eyes – appearing out of nowhere and then going back haha!
PhD title – explored the development of IWB through processes of WPL
IWB can be seen as a process of learning
Høyrup (2010) makes the relationship explicit and states that innovation processes are conceptualised as learning processes. Learning is seen as a mechanism behind employee-led innovation (e.g. it is both practice based and employee driven just like innovation) (Høyrup, 2010, p.151). Høyrup also highlights the difference between innovation and innovative behaviour: innovative behaviour can lead to innovation but it can also lead to failure. Failure from innovative behaviour can lead to the development of innovation from mistakes directly. In turn, innovative behaviour can be created through innovative learning (Høyrup, 2010, p.152).
Explain innovation has many types
Explain IWB – what is is
Explain what WPL is
Explain it comes in many forms
Researchers argue for each so mine takes both - “Workplace learning is understood as the acquisition of employment and organisational specific skills and knowledge, through means of gaining experiences within the organisation itself. Workplace learning encapsulates multiple ways in which people learn in organisations, such as through formal training delivery or informal interaction and knowledge sharing processes.”
RQ1: How do contextual factors support innovative work behaviour for application at individual and collective levels in the workplace?
RQ2: What are the determinants of successful workplace learning in relation to learning to innovate?
RQ3: How can successful workplace learning be identified in relation to learning to innovate?
RQ4: How do information behaviours (including information literacy) support successful workplace learning as related to the development of innovative work behaviour?
RQ5: Which factors support the development of innovation, or influence the proportion of innovative enterprises at national level in European countries?
Develop framework
Guidelines
Provide recommendations to practitioners
Needed a theory for work
Chose SCT – it’s a learning theory
Explain main thing – relationships between factors of learning
Stage 1: secondary data analysis of CIS
Took 9 months
Nightmare to interpret and know when to stop but I have results…
Explain results
Explain results
Second stage: case study
3 organisatons
3 countries
Highlight contextual differences in WPL/IWB practices – contribute to the framework
Interviews
Focus groups
Quant survey
Nearly 90 participants in interviews and focus groups across all 3
One downside - had lots of data:
60 participants in Scotland (8 focus groups, 33 interviews)
12 interviews in Finland
12 interviews in England
Next section will report overview of results form Finnish case study – too much data to give results to everything
JCT bursary sponsored me to go to Finland for case study
Visiting student at Abo
Own desk/work space
Participated in workshops and presented doctoral work
Carried out 12 interviews in Finnish organisation and quant survey
There for 10 days
Communication is a key factor for employees learning to innovate because this stimulates conversations (for information and knowledge sharing) that would otherwise not occur;
A strategy for innovation and change is important, but the communication and delivery of this strategy needs to both reach, and suit, the requirements of employees on all levels of the organisation;
Environmental factors are important in learning to innovate, and this is at the individual and collective levels (e.g. the provision of a training course by the organisation is useful, but only useful if the employees attend and benefit from the course). This also includes elements of non-physical environment such as organisational culture;
Measurement of whether workplace learning has been successful varies on the individual and collective levels. Individuals tend to see things such as a change in behaviour, increase in knowledge and confidence. In contrast at the departmental level, goals and targets are reviewed;
Information literacy is key component in workplace learning. This serves to help set context and acts as an initial step for workplace learning to go ahead;
The use of multiple information sources is important to utilise internal and external knowledge in the organisation. This encourages more innovative work behaviour if information is available;
More interactive information sources (e.g. people) were found to be required for workplace learning and the innovation process because this enables processes of questioning and reflection to occur;
The amount of information accessed and presented, as well as source trust, can actually hinder the innovation process.