TAILIEUCHUNG - Learning Networks as a Means for Work Organization Development

The relatively favourable overall growth of productivity in Finnish economy in recent years conceals the fact that there are remarkable sectoral differences in productivity development. The rapid productivity growth in sectors which produce information and communications technologies (ICT), such as the electrical and electronics industry, is contrasted with slackened growth in most other industries. Finnish companies’ overall record in turning the new technological opportunities permitted by advanced ICT into gains in productivity has been relatively poor. This indicates that many companies have not managed to implement sufficient improvements in their work and human resource management (HRM) practices to achieve synergistic effects of combined use of ICT and new | Learning Networks as a Means for Work Organization Development Recent Finnish Experiences Tuomo Alasoini Finnish Workplace Development Programme Ministry of Labour Paper prepared for the Nordic R&D Conference on University and Society Cooperation, Ronneby, 14-16 May 2003 1 Introduction Finland is now considered one of the most competitive industrial nations in international comparison. Finland’s performance in innovation also enjoys a high reputation. According to the EU Innovation Scoreboard 2002, Sweden and Finland are the two innovation leaders among the EU Member States (). By a closer look, however, Finland’s good performance is mainly based on achievements in the area of technological development and innovation. This is one of the main conclusions of the Science and Technology Policy Council of Finland (2003) in its newest triennial review. The review examines the main challenges facing research and innovation funding and it contains a list of policy recommendations for the future. It states, “Technological development and technological innovations are generally considered the strongest area of Finnish innovation. / / Well-deserved attention has begun to be paid to the relative weakness of social innovation in the entity of innovation. Its development alongside technology is a major challenge for society and for the economy. As yet Finland has no clear development strategy for social innovation. The challenge concerns both the organizations responsible for social development, the development of working life, and the safeguarding of individual development and opportunities by means of research-based innovations.” From the point of view of work organization development policy the unbalanced development of technological and social innovation can be seen as follows: (1) The relatively favourable overall growth of productivity in Finnish economy in recent years conceals the fact that there are

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