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of, room and opportunities should be created at the workplace for making improvement
suggestions. This is often tied up with the organisational culture.
Even small suggestions for improvement can be understood as innovations.
Because the innovation process is always a social process, the attitude of the
management toward the suggestions of its personnel plays a very important
role (Forssen 2002).
In Latvia, Estonia and Finland, a little over half of the working people had
made one or more suggestions during the year prior to the survey, with the aim
of improving working conditions, working methods or the quality of services.
In Lithuania, the corresponding proportion was definitely smaller (42 %). In
all the countries, a majority of those who had made suggestions had made
more than one during that one-year period.
INITIATIVES CONCERNING IMPROVEMENT OF WORKING
CONDITIONS, WORKING METHODS OR THE QUALITY OF SERVICES
100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
56%
Within the last 12 months
54%
42%
Several times
Once
55%
LATVIA ESTONIA LITHUANIA FINLAND
When initiative is examined according to sector, it comes to light that in Estonia
and Latvia, suggestions for improvement have, in practice, been made just
as commonly in the public and private sectors. The Lithuanian situation in this
respect is very different. There, such initiatives have been considerably more
numerous and widespread in the public than in the private sector. Lithuania's
private sector is problematic according to measurement by many different in-