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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Workplace design"”.
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Workplace design strategies within business organisations:Perception, power and the bottom line.
… to examine and shed new light on two areas of workplace design strategy. First, how much of the decisions to adopt workplace design strategies are influenced by the perceptions of the value of these strategies by those within the business organizations that are responsible for developing them; …
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Joint optimization of the technical and social aspects of workplace design
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1985.
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A workplace design that reduces employee stress and increases employee productivity using environmentally responsible materials
… object of this study was to explore interior design techniques that may reduce employee stress and enhance productivity while using environmentally responsible materials and furnishings. The design paradigm was qualitative, and the research method used was a case study. Specifically, this was …
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Unconscious Emission Reductions Through Psychological Safety and Flexible Work
… of managerial discretion, policy ambiguity, and workplace norms. Overall, emission reductions emerged largely as unintended externalities of personal and logistical decisions, demonstrating how workplace design can indirectly generate environmental benefits.
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Design for achieving strategic business objectives
The workplace is simultaneously functioning as a site of personal productivity and social interaction. As such, the contemporary work environment demands a multiple functioning architectural space, for which our current understandings of process, program and even building type are insufficient. As …
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Prototype for innovation nodes networked with associated laboratories : an approach to programming and master planning for Joseph C. Wilson Center for Research and Technology
… and Technology in Webster, New York. It concerns workplace design, space and technology issues, within the business context of research and development operations. A framework is proposed for developing R&D workplace laboratories based on the analysis of a pilot project completed in the Wilson …
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Space Design for the ACITC Educational Technology Office Area Using a Workplace Neighborhood Concept
Today, the workplace is undergoing dramatic changes, featuring increased team activities and informal interactions. The work place neighborhood is a design concept derived from a city planning theory that may solve the workplace design problems arising from these changes, and provided a focus for …
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A Comprehensive Methodology for Assessing Biomechanical Risks Associated with Hand Tool Use: Applied to Laparoscopic Surgical Instruments
… new possibilities for advancements in device and workplace design, directly benefitting the end user. Correlating data between different research modalities has resulted in new information with regards to the biomechanical influences devices impose on the user or surgeons in this particular …
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A Descriptive Case Study : The Implementation of a Field-Based Master's Program
… answers.</em> Initial teacher training was designed using the Joyce-Showers Training Model (1995). The participants were in a Workshop Design environment (Joyce, 1992) at the university that allowed the professors to model what the participants expected to learn.</p> <p>The Workplace Design …
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Technology Implementation and the Job Demands-Resources Model: A Dynamic Consideration of Adjustment Trajectories
… associated with technology implementation in the workplace. Design/Methodology/Approach: A case study approach, including focus groups and content analysis, was used to explore digital job demands, digital job resources, techno-work burnout, and techno-work engagement over time within the JD-R …
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Workspace in transition : rethinking workspace through the design of reconfigurable worksurfaces
Communication is an integral part of today's workplace, linking people, objects, and information. Now that knowledge exchange is considered a significant work activity, new technologies have been developed to support communication with people who are On the move. As a result, people can work not …
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The impact of open-plan office spatial components on the perceived human behaviour and level of collaboration: The United Arab Emirates
The concept of workplace collaboration has been extensively studied over the past years. The evaluation of employee perceptions and workplace behaviours dates back more than 70 years and serves as the topic's basis. The majority of these studies ignored the office layout environment in favour of …
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Investigating the Transfer of Service Culture through Internal Service Quality: A Case of Subsidiary Hotels in an Emerging Market like Nigeria
… and recognition, tools to serve customers, and workplace design. The study demonstrates the important role that intermediaries can play in achieving accommodations to achieve at least partial transfer of the parent service culture. Overall, the research contributes to management practice by …
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Social and Psychological Adaptation to Open-Plan Workplace Designs
The association between office design and occupant outcomes has been widely examined. In general, people working in more open or shared offices report poorer outcomes on a range of psychological, productivity and environmental satisfaction measures. However, not all studies and occupants report …
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An Activity Based Workspace Project: A study to explore how actual user behaviour reflects original design intention
… organisations are implementing Activity Based Workplaces (ABW), which offer an open and transparent workspace with flexible seating configurations to enhance numerous work activities. Whilst many researchers propose the ABW facilitates interaction, collaboration, concentration, privacy and …
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Cyber-physical systems to monitor the efficiency and sustainability of human-centric manufacturing systems
… the years that have been shaping not only the design and management of processes but also their core drivers and value propositions. Industry 4.0 unleashes many enabling technologies such as the Internet of Things sensors and machine learning algorithms to boost industries’ productivity through …
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Airport Territory as Interface: Mobile Work and Travel in Hybrid Space.
… air travel experience for constant travellers, design approaches from architecture and research methods from social studies should be combined. Abstract Global mobility, wireless technology and networked society are transforming the airport territory. These changes (hard factors) have been …
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Lineamientos estratégicos para diseñar espacios físicos que impulsan la creatividad y facilitan la innovación empresarial en Colombia y Ecuador
En la actualidad, las empresas se enfrentan día a día a retos complejos que demandan innovación y creatividad para continuar en el mercado. Los espacios físicos son el entorno en donde las personas colaboran, crean, y comparten conocimiento para resolver todo tipo de problemas, es así que, el …