Innovation: HR as enabler or inhibitor?
Past HR Network Event
11 May 2017
Event resources
How HR helps or hinders innovation
Peter Reilly, IES Principal Associate
Innovation at work
Liz Phillips, Interim Director, Liz Phillips HR (Former People Director at Macdonald Hotels & Resorts; Director of Resourcing & Employee Relations at Mitchells & Butler)
The role of HR in workforce innovation
Peter Reilly, IES Principal Associate, and Associate Fellow, Edinburgh Napier University, and Professor Maura Sheehan, Professor of International Management, Edinburgh Napier University
This workshop considered:
- What helps workforce innovation?
- What are the barriers to workforce innovation?
- What role can HR play in stimulating workforce innovation?
Speakers
Liz Phillips, Interim Director, Liz Phillips HR (Former People Director at Macdonald Hotels & Resorts; Director of Resourcing & Employee Relations at Mitchells & Butler)
Facilitator: Peter Reilly, Principal Associate, Institute for Employment Studies
Event details
This event considered whether organisations use HR policies and practices (eg learning and development, reward, performance management, employee engagement) to promote organisational innovation and thereby enhance organisational performance, or whether workplace innovation comes from other sources. The workshop then examined which HR policies and people management practices enable innovation and which inhibit innovation.
