ifkad articles

How wellbeing and resilience in the workplace influence innovation?

Vidya Sagar Athota, Ashish Malik

There is an increasing evidence that highlights the technical and managerial innovations are necessary for firm survival. However, there is limited focus on the relationship between employee well-being and resilience on innovations in an organisational context. The purpose of this conceptual paper is to map the relationships between concepts of employee well-being, resilience in the context of achieving workplace innovation outcomes. This conceptual paper reviews the literature on three sets of theoretical lenses: workplace innovations, organisational ambidexterity and HRM practices in supporting innovation and with an additional focus on individual level influences of employee well-being and resilience and its relationship on innovation. This paper is to the best of our knowledge is the first conceptual review that provides a multi-level review of the three disparate yet related sets of literatures and its impact on organisational innovation outcomes. In doing so, this study also fills the gap on the micro-level foundations of individual employee well-being and resilience and its relationship with innovation.

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2017 – Knowledge Management in the 21st Century: Resilience, Creativity and Co-creation
PP: 530-540