ERC - Report Do more inclusive workplaces lead to more innovation Bourke Roper

Implications In policy terms our results on the innovation benefits of building an inclusive workplace provide strong support for measures designed to promote employment diversity (by gender, ethnicity and disability), flexible working, and the implementation of practices to support employee mental health and well-being. [...] The aim is to identify key lines of argument in the literature and suggest the rationale for the inclusion of variables in the later empirical analysis. [...] Second, and controlling for the impact of diversity and HPWPs on innovation, we use a potential outcomes treatment model to estimate the innovation effects of workplace mental health and well-being practices. [...] Understanding the effects of mental health and well-being practices To address the third research question - How do workplace practices to support good mental health and well-being among employees contribute to innovation? – we adopt a potential outcomes treatment approach controlling for the impacts of workforce diversity and firms’ adoption of MHWPs. [...] The increased likelihood of process innovation is 9 per cent for firms that use data to monitor employee health and well-being and 11 per cent for firms evaluating the impact of mental health and well-being activities.