ABSTRACT

In an increasingly competitive environment, companies are being forced to think harder than ever about the way they work and how they can improve profitability. Creating the Productive Workplace provides a critical, multidisciplinary review of the factors affecting workplace productivity. Productivity is a key issue for individual companies as well

chapter 1|15 pages

Indoor environment and productivity

ByDerek Clements-Croome

chapter 2|11 pages

Creativity in the workplace

ByJackie Townsend

chapter 3|11 pages

Consciousness, well-being and the senses

ByDerek Clements-Croome

chapter 4|11 pages

Pleasure and joy, and their role in human life

ByMichel Cabanac

chapter 5|20 pages

Emotion and the environment: the forgotten dimension

ByMahtab Akhavan Farshchi, Norman Fisher

chapter 7|16 pages

Stress and the changing nature of work

ByValerie Sutherland, Cary L. Cooper

chapter 8|14 pages

The economics of enhanced environmental services in buildings

ByDavid H. Mudarri

chapter 9|22 pages

Assessment of link between productivity and indoor air quality

Charles E. Dorgan and Chad B. Dorgan

chapter 10|38 pages

Assessment and measurement of productivity

ByDerek Clements-Croome, Yamuna Kaluarachchi

chapter 11|25 pages

Productivity in buildings: the ‘killer’ variables

ByAdrian Leaman, Bill Bordass

chapter 13|20 pages

Creating high-quality workplaces using lighting

ByJennifer A. Veitch

chapter 14|15 pages

Attention and performance in the workplace

ByRoy Davis

chapter 15|17 pages

Concentration and attention: new directions in theory and assessment

ByDavid A. Schwartz, Stephen Kaplan

chapter 16|13 pages

Managerial and employee involvement in design processes

ByJean E. Neumann The problem

chapter 17|9 pages

The Intelligent Workplace: a research laboratory

ByVolker Hartkopf, Marshall Hemphill

chapter 18|14 pages

Air-conditioning systems of the KI Building, Tokyo

ByHidetoshi Takenoya

chapter 19|9 pages

Employee productivity and the intelligent workplace

ByWalter M. Kroner

chapter 20|9 pages

Future design – guidelines and tools

ByJOHN DOGGART

chapter 21|10 pages

Optimising the working environment

ByJOHN H. JUKES

chapter 22|11 pages

New ways of working: a vision of the future

FRANCIS DUFFY
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