Workplace innovation (WPI) approaches share the ‘advancement’ of work as a commonality, that is, the notion of good jobs and its relation with good business performance. How WPI approaches contribute to the advancement of work is discussed in this ‘narrative review’ of the WPI literature, which intends to provide direction to future study and implementation of advanced work. A human‐centric theoretical position is chosen with regard to WPI, good work and well‐performing organisations. The heart of the review is investigating the roots of WPI and its historical development along the lines of four different research streams: sociology and organisation research, safety science and organisation research, economic strategy and human resources research, and psychology and behavioural research. These streams are evaluated from their contribution to advanced work, ‘good jobs’. In this review of WPI as a plea for a practical approach, we conclude how the streams connect to the conceptualisation of WPI and human‐centricity, discuss the implications for practice and some limitations, and make recommendations for future research.

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回顾工作场所创新以寻求实用方法

工作场所创新（WPI）方法将工作的“进步”作为一个共性，即良好工作的概念及其与良好业务绩效的关系。 WPI 文献的“叙述性回顾”讨论了 WPI 方法如何促进工作进展，旨在为未来研究和高级工作的实施提供方向。关于 WPI、良好工作和绩效良好的组织，选择了以人为本的理论立场。审查的核心是沿着四个不同研究方向调查 WPI 的根源及其历史发展：社会学和组织研究、安全科学和组织研究、经济战略和人力资源研究以及心理学和行为研究。这些流是根据其对高级工作（“好工作”）的贡献来评估的。在对 WPI 的回顾中，我们总结了这些流如何与 WPI 和以人为中心的概念联系起来，讨论了对实践的影响和一些局限性，并为未来的研究提出了建议。