1st Edition
A Handbook of Theories on Designing Alignment Between People and the Office Environment
Although workplace design and management are gaining more and more attention from modern organizations, workplace research is still very fragmented and spread across multiple disciplines in academia. There are several books on the market related to workplaces, facility management (FM), and corporate real estate management (CREM) disciplines, but few open up a theoretical and practical discussion across multiple theories from different fields of studies. Therefore, workplace researchers are not aware of all the angles from which workplace management and effects of workplace design on employees has been or could be studied. A lot of knowledge is lost between disciplines, and sadly, many insights do not reach workplace managers in practice. Therefore, this new book series is started by associate professor Rianne Appel-Meulenbroek (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands) and postdoc researcher Vitalija Danivska (Aalto University, Finland) as editors, published by Routledge. It is titled ‘Transdisciplinary Workplace Research and Management’ because it bundles important research insights from different disciplinary fields and shows its relevance for both academic workplace research and workplace management in practice. The books will address the complexity of the transdisciplinary angle necessary to solve ongoing workplace-related issues in practice, such as knowledge worker productivity, office use, and more strategic workplace management. In addition, the editors work towards further collaboration and integration of the necessary disciplines for further development of the workplace field in research and in practice. This book series is relevant for workplace experts both in academia and industry.
This first book in the series focuses on the employee as a user of the work environment. The 21 theories discussed and applied to workplace design in this book address people’s ability to do their job and thrive in relation to the office workplace. Some focus more on explaining why people behave the way they do (the psychosocial environment), while others take the physical and/or digital workplace quality as a starting point to explain employee outcomes such as health, satisfaction, and performance. They all explain different aspects for achieving employee-workplace alignment (EWA) and thereby ensuring employee thriving. The final chapter describes a first step towards integrating these theories into an overall interdisciplinary framework for eventually developing a grand EWA theory.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003128830, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
1. Gathering theories to explain employee-workplace alignment from an interdisciplinary viewpoint
Rianne Appel-Meulenbroek and Vitalija Danivska
2. Person–environment fit theory: application to the design of work environments
Lynne Audrey Armitage and Johari Hussein Nassor Amar
3. Job demands-resources model: its applicability to the workplace environment and human flourishing
Michael Roskams, Eileen McNeely, Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, and Piotr Bialowolski
4. Task-technology fit theory: an approach for mitigating technostress
Nelda Vendramin, Giulia Nardelli, and Christine Ipsen
5. Action regulation theory
Lukas Windlinger
6. Privacy regulation theory: redevelopment and application to work privacy
Clara Weber, Birgitta Gatersleben, Barbara Degenhardt, and Lukas Windlinger
7. Information space(s)
Mascha Will-Zocholl
8. Social constructionism theory: constructing the user experience of workplace
Kaisa Airo
9. Ecological systems theory
Eunhwa Yang and Bonnie Sanborn
10. Temperament theory: understanding people in a workplace context
Mel Bull
11. Two-process theory of perceived control: changing the workspace and changing the self
Daibin Xie
12. Organisational culture theories: dimensions of organisational culture and office layouts
Kusal Nanayakkara and Sara Wilkinson
13. Theory of attractive quality: occupant satisfaction with indoor environmental quality at workplaces
Quan Jin, Holger Wallbaum, Jungsoo Kim, and Richard de Dear
14. Flourish theory: a model for multisensory human-centric design
Derek Clements-Croome
15. Biophilia hypothesis: the benefits of nature in the workplace
Sven Wolf Ostner
16. Place attachment theory
Goksenin Inalhan, Eunhwa Yang, and Clara Weber
17. Evolutionary psychology theory: can I ever let go of my past?
Young Lee
18. Behavioural economics theory: masters of deviations, irrationalities, and biases
Young Lee
19. Nudging in the workplace: facilitating desirable behaviour by changing the environment
Tina Venema and Laurens van Gestel
20. Activity theory: a framework for understanding the interrelations between users and workplace design
Maral Babapour, Antonio Cobaleda-Cordero, and MariAnne Karlsson
21. Space syntax theory: understanding human movement, co-presence and encounters in relation to the spatial structure of workplaces
Kerstin Sailer and Petros Koutsolampros
22. Organisational knowledge creation theory and knowledge workplaces
Mervi Huhtelin and Suvi Nenonen
23. Towards an interdisciplinary employee-workplace alignment theory
Rianne Appel-Meulenbroek, Susanne Colenberg, and Vitalija Danviska
Biography
Dr Ir Rianne Appel-Meulenbroek is an associate professor in corporate real estate (CRE) and workplace at the Department of the Built Environment at Eindhoven University of Technology. She is Chair of the Transdisciplinary Workplace Research (TWR) network, co-editor of the Journal of CRE, and a regular speaker at international events. In her research, she approaches workplaces as an important strategic resource for knowledge organizations, studying how they should be managed strategically and how workplace design and use aspects impact employee and organizational outcomes.
Dr Vitalija Danivska is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Built Environment at Aalto University, Finland. With a background in real estate economics, she is particularly interested in the real estate business and corporate, facilities management areas. In 2018, she obtained her doctoral degree with her thesis studying the 'Workplace-as-a-Service' concept. She received the EuroFM 2020 Best Paper award, was the runner-up for the 2018 EuroFM Researcher of the Year award, and organized the first TWR conference in 2018 in Tampere, Finland.
