Innovation is traditionally viewed as an activity which involves a small band of highly skilled workers. By examining the results of a British survey of employees, this article breaks with this approach. It makes two distinctive contributions. First, it provides new insights into the extent to which employees of all kinds come up with ideas about improving the work processes they use, the products they make and services they provide. Secondly, it examines the correlates of this behaviour. The results show that the strength of employee involvement, the nature of workplace support and development, and performance management are strongly associated with employees’ willingness and ability to come up with innovative ideas. However, some of these features of work have declined in Britain in recent years, while economic outcomes often associated with innovation – such as increased productivity and stronger economic growth – have stalled.

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衡量员工驱动的创新及其工作场所的相关性

传统上，创新被视为一种涉及一小群高技能工人的活动。通过检查英国对员工的调查结果，本文打破了这种方法。它有两个不同的贡献。首先，它提供了对各种员工提出改进他们使用的工作流程、他们制造的产品和他们提供的服务的想法的程度的新见解。其次，它检查了这种行为的相关性。结果表明，员工参与的强度、工作场所支持和发展的性质以及绩效管理与员工提出创新想法的意愿和能力密切相关。然而，近年来，英国的一些工作特点有所下降，