title: Opening the black box: How staff training and development may affect the innovation of enterprises
creator: Mate, Davide
creator: Carpaneto, Alberto
creator: Tirassa, Corrado
creator: Brizio, Adelina
creator: Rezzonico, Raffaele
creator: Brassesco, Barbara
creator: Surra, Fabio
creator: Rabellino, Daniela
creator: Tirassa, Maurizio
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Ethics
subject: Social Psychology
description: We describe a research on the interplay that appears to exist in companies between Human Resource Management and innovation. This complex, multicomponent, non-linear and dynamic interplay is often viewed as a "black box". To help open the black box, we outline both a theoretical framework and preliminary empirical data. We view innovation as an organization-level property, favored by the organization's self-perception as a knowledge engine. Therefore, we devised a protocol to study the companies' strategies for training and development and their innovation profile. The protocol consisted in a questionnaire with 100 closed questions, suitable for companies which rely mostly on an inner training and development service. The questionnaire was administered to a sample of Italian firms from the Food & beverages and Fashion markets. The results show that certain facets of training and development are indeed correlated to innovation. Finally, we discuss the results.
publisher: The International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM)
contributor: Hulzingh, K.R.E.
contributor: Conn, S.
contributor: Torkkell, M.
contributor: Bitran, I.
date: 2010-06
type: Conference Paper
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/6862/1/2010-Innovation-ISPIM.pdf
identifier:   Mate, Davide and Carpaneto, Alberto and Tirassa, Corrado and Brizio, Adelina and Rezzonico, Raffaele and Brassesco, Barbara and Surra, Fabio and Rabellino, Daniela and Tirassa, Maurizio  (2010) Opening the black box: How staff training and development may affect the innovation of enterprises.  [Conference Paper]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/6862/