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Learning and Employee-Driven Innovation in the Public Sector -- The Interplay between Employee Engagement and Organisational Conditions
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Lidman, Linda; Gustavsson, Maria; Fogelberg Eriksson, Anna – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine learning and employee-driven innovation (EDI) in the public sector, with a particular focus on the interplay between employee engagement and organisational conditions. Design/methodology/approach: The material consists of qualitative interviews with 23 participants from three municipal sites of…
Descriptors: Employees, Innovation, Learning, Public Sector
Joy, Pride, and Shame: On Working in the Affective Economy of Edu-Business
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Ideland, Malin; Serder, Margareta – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
This study focuses on what people working in edu-business want to achieve. The aim is to explore (1) how the edu-business sector is discursively constructed as a work-place and part of the education system, and (2) how this discourse is organized within an affective economy -- that is how the valuation of emotions distinguish what are considered…
Descriptors: Commercialization, Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Psychological Patterns
Facilitating Expansive Learning in a Public Sector Organization
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Gustavsson, Maria – Studies in Continuing Education, 2009
The aim of this article is to discuss how learning opportunities can be organized to promote expansive learning in work practice. The discussion draws on results from a case study examining local development work and conditions that facilitate processes of expansive learning in a work team within a public sector organization in a Swedish…
Descriptors: Learning, Work Environment, Public Sector, Municipalities