The organization development based on workplace innovations has been under examination in some of the
European countries for example in Finland, Ireland, Germany, Sweden and Norway (see Alasoini 2009). The
optimal workplace innovation (OWI) can be seen as collectively agreed and successfully fulfilled
improvement that best fit for the collective development needs identified at the working society. These
workplace innovations meet the employee needs for development and thus improve the Quality of Working
Life (QWL). QWL describes how the employees feel the organization is fulfilling the individual needs related
to working life (see e.g. Efraty & Sirgy 1988, Ramstad 2009).