If You Cut Employees Some Slack, Will They Innovate?
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Magazine: Summer 2018 Issue
- Research Highlight
- Read Time: 11 min
Giving people time and resources to pursue innovation projects can produce extraordinary outcomes — but only if you match your “slack strategy” to employee type. The authors found that different types of employees respond in different ways to slack innovation programs; that different kinds of slack resources are better suited to certain types of employees than others; and that different kinds of slack innovation programs produce different kinds of innovation.