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Summary
Summary
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 as the national economy as a whole. With 70-90 per cent of the costs of running an organisation consisting of the salaries of the workforce, small increases in worker productivity can reap high financial returns. Many studies have shown that productivity at work bears a close relationship to the work environment. This book sets out the most important factors and evidence behind this phenomenon, and offers solutions to providing a work environment inducive to productivity. This book is essential reading for facilities and estates office managers, interior designers, architects and building environmental engineers. It is also a text for undergraduates and postgraduates studying these disciplines and related subjects.
Table of Contents
Preface |
Contents |
Foreword - Nick Raynsford, Minister for Construction, DETR |
Creativity, Environment and People |
Creativity in the WorkplaceJackie Townsend |
Pleasure and Joy, and their Role in Human LifeMichel Cabanac |
Emotion and Environment: The Forgotten DimensionMathab Farshchi |
A Broad Definition of ComfortMax Fordham |
Stress and the Changing Nature of Work |
The Economic Case for Productivity |
The Economics of Enhanced Environmental Services in BuildingsDavid Mudarri |
Productivity Link Assessment to Indoor Air QualityCharles E Dorgan and Chad B Dorgan |
The Nature of Productivity |
Productivity in the WorkplaceDerek Clements-Croome and Yamuna Kaluarachchi |
Productivity in Buildings: The Killer VariablesAdrian Leaman and Bill Bordass |
Individual Control at each WorkplaceDavid Wyon |
Creating High Quality Workplaces using LightingJennifer Veitch |
Concentration & Thinking |
Attention and Performance in the WorkplaceRoy Davis |
Concentration and Attention: New Directions in Theory and AssessmentDavid A Schwartz and Stephen Kaplan |
Case Studies |
The Role of Perception, Designing for Productivity and WellbeingJean Neumann |
The Intelligent Workplace: A Research LaboratoryVolker Hartkopf and Marshall Hemphill |
Airconditioning Systems of the K. I. Building in TokyoHidetoshi Takenoya |
Employee, Productivity in the Intelligent WorkplaceWalter Kroner |
Future Design: Guidelines and ToolsJohn Doggart |
Optimising the Working EnvironmentJohn Jukes |
The Future |
Work Performance Improvement, using Facilities managementAndrew Carter |
New Ways of Working: A Vision of the FutureFrancis Duffy |
Appendix |
Index |