ABSTRACT

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 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003128830, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

chapter 1|13 pages

Gathering Theories to Explain Employee-Workplace Alignment from an Interdisciplinary Viewpoint

ByRianne Appel-Meulenbroek, Vitalija Danivska
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chapter 2|13 pages

Person-Environment Fit Theory

Application to the design of work environments
ByLynne Audrey Armitage, Johari Hussein Nassor Amar
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chapter 3|12 pages

Job Demands-Resources Model

Its applicability to the workplace environment and human flourishing
ByMichael Roskams, Eileen McNeely, Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Piotr Bialowolski
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chapter 4|15 pages

Task-Technology Fit Theory

An approach for mitigating technostress
ByNelda Vendramin, Giulia Nardelli, Christine Ipsen
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chapter 5|14 pages

Action Regulation Theory

ByLukas Windlinger
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chapter 6|14 pages

Privacy Regulation Theory

Redevelopment and application to work privacy
ByClara Weber, Birgitta Gatersleben, Barbara Degenhardt, Lukas Windlinger
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chapter 7|11 pages

Information Space(s)

ByMascha Will-Zocholl
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chapter 8|8 pages

Social Constructionism Theory

Constructing the user experience of workplace
ByKaisa Airo
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chapter 9|14 pages

Ecological Systems Theory

ByEunhwa Yang, Bonnie Sanborn
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chapter 10|9 pages

Temperament Theory

Understanding people in a workplace context
ByMel Bull
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chapter 11|8 pages

Two-Process Theory of Perceived Control

Changing the workspace and changing the self
ByDaibin Xie
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chapter 12|16 pages

Organisational Culture Theories

Dimensions of organisational culture and office layouts
ByKusal Nanayakkara, Sara Wilkinson
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chapter 13|9 pages

Theory of Attractive Quality

Occupant satisfaction with indoor environmental quality at workplaces
ByQuan Jin, Holger Wallbaum, Jungsoo Kim, Richard de Dear
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chapter 14|12 pages

Flourish Theory

A model for multisensory human-centric design
ByDerek Clements-Croome
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chapter 15|12 pages

Biophilia Hypothesis

The benefits of nature in the workplace
BySven Wolf Ostner
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chapter 16|14 pages

Place Attachment Theory

ByGoksenin Inalhan, Eunhwa Yang, Clara Weber
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chapter 17|14 pages

Evolutionary Psychology Theory

Can I ever let go of my past?
ByYoung Lee
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chapter 18|13 pages

Behavioural Economics Theory

Masters of deviations, irrationalities, and biases
ByYoung Lee
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chapter 19|14 pages

Nudging in the Workplace

Facilitating desirable behaviour by changing the environment
ByTina Venema, Laurens van Gestel
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chapter 20|12 pages

Activity Theory

A framework for understanding the interrelations between users and workplace design
ByMaral Babapour, Antonio Cobaleda-Cordero, MariAnne Karlsson
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chapter 21|13 pages

Space Syntax Theory

Understanding human movement, co-presence and encounters in relation to the spatial structure of workplaces
ByKerstin Sailer, Petros Koutsolampros
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chapter 22|11 pages

Organisational Knowledge Creation Theory and Knowledge Workplaces

ByMervi Huhtelin, Suvi Nenonen
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chapter 23|17 pages

Towards an Interdisciplinary Employee-Workplace Alignment Theory

ByRianne Appel-Meulenbroek, Susanne Colenberg, Vitalija Danivska
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