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Effects of control and flexibility in workplace design on employee's job satisfaction, group cohesiveness and perceived performance (Michigan).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Effects of control and flexibility in workplace design on employee's job satisfaction, group cohesiveness and perceived performance (Michigan)./
Author:	Lee, So Young.
Description:	150 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-04, Section: A, page: 1150.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-04A.
Subject:	Architecture. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3129506
ISBN:	0496767652

Effects of control and flexibility in workplace design on employee's job satisfaction, group cohesiveness and perceived performance (Michigan).
Lee, So Young.

Effects of control and flexibility in workplace design on employee's job satisfaction, group cohesiveness and perceived performance (Michigan). - 150 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-04, Section: A, page: 1150.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 2004.

In today's changing workplace, the importance of the role of the physical environment in supporting organizational goals and changing needs is increasingly acknowledged. However, many workplace designs have not yet successfully supported these changing needs, and the balance in working alone and working with others is often neglected. At the individual level, control over the physical environment is expected to help employees to cope with change, experience a more stable environment, mitigate the negative effects of distraction and disturbance from the environment, and thus to have higher job satisfaction and performance. On the other hand, at the interpersonal or group level, a flexible use of the workplace is expected to enable employees to have more instant interactions, to do effective collaborative work both in their proximal and broader work areas, and thus to have higher group cohesiveness and higher performance.

ISBN: 0496767652Subjects--Topical Terms:

523581
Architecture.

Effects of control and flexibility in workplace design on employee's job satisfaction, group cohesiveness and perceived performance (Michigan).
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520 $a In today's changing workplace, the importance of the role of the physical environment in supporting organizational goals and changing needs is increasingly acknowledged. However, many workplace designs have not yet successfully supported these changing needs, and the balance in working alone and working with others is often neglected. At the individual level, control over the physical environment is expected to help employees to cope with change, experience a more stable environment, mitigate the negative effects of distraction and disturbance from the environment, and thus to have higher job satisfaction and performance. On the other hand, at the interpersonal or group level, a flexible use of the workplace is expected to enable employees to have more instant interactions, to do effective collaborative work both in their proximal and broader work areas, and thus to have higher group cohesiveness and higher performance.
520 $a In this study, four hundred and nine questionnaires were collected from employees of three manufacturing corporations in Michigan. Approximately 28% of respondents were intensively engaged in engineering while others (24%) intensively worked for marketing/sales or finance/accounting.
520 $a The results indicate that control over the physical environmental features of the workplace positively influenced job satisfaction. However, the influence was less than the influence that control over work had on job satisfaction. With respect to physical dimensions, being able to control social contacts was the important predictor of job satisfaction, along with personalization, and determination of organization and appearance of the workplace. It was found that control played a mediating role in reducing the negative effects of distraction on performance. According to individual work styles, those who valued a quiet workplace had a negative effect from distraction on performance, but those who were less concerned with quietness, the effect of distraction on performance was positive. The findings also supported the hypothesis that flexibility is positively related to task group cohesiveness but not to social group cohesiveness. General flexibility and convertibility were significant predictors of task group cohesiveness. No significant relationship was found between openness and group cohesiveness. In order to measure the physical environmental aspects, as well as control and flexibility, from the user's perspective, the study investigated the gaps between what employees perceive and what they expect from their workplace. Based on linear projection, there was no substantial difference between gap measures and perception measures to explain work environment satisfaction and job satisfaction. Scatter plots revealed different patterns between the two measures.
520 $a The present study found control and flexibility in the workplace to be important. Some practical implications were suggested emphasizing that control and flexibility allow limited resources to be used in ways that permit individuals to work effectively within a changing work environment. Finally, this dissertation gives suggestions for future studies including the use of diverse methodological approaches and unexplored areas.
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