@article {1240, title = {Employee-Driven Innovation: An Intervention Using Action Research}, journal = {Technology Innovation Management Review}, volume = {9}, year = {2019}, month = {05/2019}, pages = {44-53}, publisher = {Talent First Network}, address = {Ottawa}, abstract = {This article describes an intervention to design and test a method for employee-driven innovation and a model for learning among managers and development leaders. The empirical basis for the intervention focused on personal assistants in the home service within a municipality in Sweden. The intervention was carried out using action research in on a series of workshops with a group of employees, managers, development leaders. Using a {\textquotedblleft}stage{\textquotedblright} and {\textquotedblleft}stands{\textquotedblright} theatre metaphor, employees engaged in collective, innovative learning {\textquotedblleft}on the stage{\textquotedblright} combined with observations and reflections from managers and development leaders {\textquotedblleft}in the stands{\textquotedblright}. This article contributes a method that can generate creative ideas among the employees and a model that can stimulate experience-based learning through observations. The intervention also shows that action research can be used to develop and test methods and models. }, keywords = {development, dialogue, ideas, learning, organizational innovation}, issn = {1927-0321}, doi = {http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1240}, url = {https://timreview.ca/article/1240}, author = {Mats Holmquist and Anna Johansson} }