Knight, C., & Haslam, S. (2010). The relative merits of lean, enriched, and empowered offices: An experimental examination of the impact of workspace management strategies on well-being and productivity. Journal Of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 16(2), 158-172. doi:10.1037/a0019292
Craig Knight and Alexander Haslam from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom look at the possible impacts of workplaces and office decoration, where well-being and productive are observed. The principles of lean management are explored due to the tight control of an office space and the workers. However, new developments have allow for workers to create and embrace their social identity through other space management strategies: decorated by the experimenter with plants and art, self-decorated, or self-decorated and then redecorated by others. The experiment examines the outlines in relation to well-being and productivity, where positive benefits are seen - challenging the dominant practice of lean management in history. The lean approach has strong roots in Taylorism, a tightly control management style that has a certain approach to office spaces: 1) the removal from the workplace of everything except materials required to do the job at hand, 2) tight managerial control, and 3) standardization of managerial practices and workplace design. The results show a strong correlation between involvement, autonomy, quality of workplace, psychological comfort, organization identification, job satisfaction, and physical comfort all have positive outcomes when employees within an office are empowered to design their own spaces versus having it created for them. The rising popularity for these approaches and with the psychological needs based with decision making are associated with social identity of a workplace increasing workplace productivity. The research and article has little biases, emphasizing the positives off all four management strategies but replies on statistical data and a heavy use of references to come to a sound conclusion.The style and vocabulary of Knights work would make the article of interest to any reader due to the subject, however the use of visuals and the representation of effect though numerical data would better suit an audience with an understanding of ANOVA/statistics.
Craig Knight and Alexander Haslam from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom look at the possible impacts of workplaces and office decoration, where well-being and productive are observed. The principles of lean management are explored due to the tight control of an office space and the workers. However, new developments have allow for workers to create and embrace their social identity through other space management strategies: decorated by the experimenter with plants and art, self-decorated, or self-decorated and then redecorated by others. The experiment examines the outlines in relation to well-being and productivity, where positive benefits are seen - challenging the dominant practice of lean management in history. The lean approach has strong roots in Taylorism, a tightly control management style that has a certain approach to office spaces: 1) the removal from the workplace of everything except materials required to do the job at hand, 2) tight managerial control, and 3) standardization of managerial practices and workplace design. The results show a strong correlation between involvement, autonomy, quality of workplace, psychological comfort, organization identification, job satisfaction, and physical comfort all have positive outcomes when employees within an office are empowered to design their own spaces versus having it created for them. The rising popularity for these approaches and with the psychological needs based with decision making are associated with social identity of a workplace increasing workplace productivity. The research and article has little biases, emphasizing the positives off all four management strategies but replies on statistical data and a heavy use of references to come to a sound conclusion.The style and vocabulary of Knights work would make the article of interest to any reader due to the subject, however the use of visuals and the representation of effect though numerical data would better suit an audience with an understanding of ANOVA/statistics.
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