iDocQ 2016 20x20 presentation

Lyndsey Jenkins1st year PhD student

Edinburgh Napier University

Centre for Social Informatics

Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation

School of Computing

Enhancing the capacity for workplace learning and innovation in

Scotland

Supervisors: Professor Hazel Hall and Professor Robert Raeside

Workplace learning???

Innovation

Learning

Workplace

Organisation

Training

Innovation Skills

Leap into Research (Edinburgh Napier University, March 2016)

Framework…

…valuable to Skills Development Scotland

Workplace learning and innovation

Cognitions

Behaviours

Organisational context

Motivations

Provide a valuable framework for dissemination by skills agencies

Knowledge gap!

http://amymarquez.com/knowledge-gap-in-ux-design/

Methods1. UK Labour force survey

2. Workplace employee relations survey

3. The employment surveys dataset

4. European labour force survey, European working conditions survey, International labour organisation database

Methods

http://www.hotel-industry.co.uk/2015/05/hotel-industry-a-changing-business-landscape/

Multi-method approach

Quantitative

Qualitative

The ‘what?’ and the ‘why?’

Why this method?

Triangulation Combined or separate… they still make sense!

survey

interviewsfocus groups

McNamara, Fealey, Casey, O’Connor, Patton, Doyle & Quinlan, 2014).

Enrich data qualityValidates data

Why this method?

Social Cognitive Theory

Bandura (1986):

Self-efficacy

Pálsdóttir, A. (2013). Social cognitive theory. In Wilson, T. D. (Ed.). Theory in information behaviour research. Sheffield, UK: Eiconics Ltd. [E-book] ISBN 978-0-9574957-0-8.

EnvironmentBehaviour

Intra-personal factors

Social Cognitive Theory

Pálsdóttir, A. (2013). Social cognitive theory. In Wilson, T. D. (Ed.). Theory in information behaviour research. Sheffield, UK: Eiconics Ltd. [E-book] ISBN 978-0-9574957-0-8.

EnvironmentBehaviour

Intra-personal factors

“Knowledge creates the precondition for

change” (Bandura, 1997)

Triadic Reciprocal Causation

Findings from literature search so far…

Organisation

Individual innovation capabilityAttributes

Individual abilityPersonality

Behaviours Individual skills

Next steps…Next steps…

Find me elsewhere:

Email: L.Jenkins@napier.ac.uk

Twitter: @LJenk2015

PhD Blog: lyndseyjenkins.org

Napier Page: http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/l.jenkins