Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Office layouts and employee participation

Office layouts and employee participation Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose an applicable solution to help organizations to solve the problem of participation vs privacy in office buildings. Design/methodology/approach – A theoretical model is proposed based on research claims that employees' participation motivated by three issues simultaneously is likely to shape the ideal overall participation map in office layouts. These are organizational, physical planning, and personal characteristics issues. The model was applied to a case study and results were compared with employees' reaction. Findings – Once the model was applied, results revealed misallocation of 63 per cent of staff in their workspaces. Results support employees' reaction towards their dissatisfaction with the level of participation vs privacy they possess in their workspaces. Research limitations/implications – Each organization could have a different participation map due to variations in organizational and personal characteristics issues. Further research is needed to understand relationships among the three incorporated issues. Originality/value – The proposed model could be easily applied and would provide organizations with ideal office layouts that would support productivity. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Facilities Emerald Publishing

Office layouts and employee participation

Facilities , Volume 28 (7/8): 10 – May 25, 2010

Loading next page...
 
/lp/emerald-publishing/office-layouts-and-employee-participation-8aN0Rbl0mN

References (14)

Publisher
Emerald Publishing
Copyright
Copyright © 2010 Emerald Group Publishing Limited. All rights reserved.
ISSN
0263-2772
DOI
10.1108/02632771011042455
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose an applicable solution to help organizations to solve the problem of participation vs privacy in office buildings. Design/methodology/approach – A theoretical model is proposed based on research claims that employees' participation motivated by three issues simultaneously is likely to shape the ideal overall participation map in office layouts. These are organizational, physical planning, and personal characteristics issues. The model was applied to a case study and results were compared with employees' reaction. Findings – Once the model was applied, results revealed misallocation of 63 per cent of staff in their workspaces. Results support employees' reaction towards their dissatisfaction with the level of participation vs privacy they possess in their workspaces. Research limitations/implications – Each organization could have a different participation map due to variations in organizational and personal characteristics issues. Further research is needed to understand relationships among the three incorporated issues. Originality/value – The proposed model could be easily applied and would provide organizations with ideal office layouts that would support productivity.

Journal

FacilitiesEmerald Publishing

Published: May 25, 2010

Keywords: Employees participation; Office layout; Employee behaviour; Saudi Arabia

There are no references for this article.