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Organizational Principles Oriented to Maximize Innovative Ideas of Blue-Collar Employees in Manufacturing
Groenneberg, Inty; Childs, Peter
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Year:
2016
Editor:
Boks, Casper; Sigurjonsson, Johannes; Steinert, Martin; Vis, Carlijn; Wulvik, Andreas
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Series:
NordDESIGN
Institution:
Imperial College of London, United Kingdom
Section:
Collaboration & Creativity
Page(s):
288-297
ISBN:
978-1-904670-80-3
Abstract:
This paper is focused on the blue-collar workforce, or more simply operators, as the central aspect of the manufacturing processes to produce manufacturing environments that can decrease routine-based operations. As a result, manufacturing operations can become again an attractive area to consider for creative organizations. The framework, comprising an organised culture of setting challenges, organisation of their resolution and up-skilling to enable competences, is based on a theoretical analysis of the work conditions for operators using a technical, sociological and psychological approach and evaluating different barriers for innovation. We illustrate this analysis using a case study in a small assembly company (SME) in which a new organizational structure was simulated to maximize intrinsic motivation and the working environment in the blue-collar workforce.
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