Perceived Fit and User Behavior in Activity-Based Work Environments

IF 5.2 2区 心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Jan Gerard Hoendervanger, Nico W. Van Yperen, M. Mobach, C. Albers
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Abstract

While activity-based working is gaining popularity worldwide, research shows that workers frequently experience a misfit between the task at hand and their work setting. In the current study, experience sampling data were used to examine how perceived fit in activity-based work environments is related to user behavior (i.e., the use of work settings and setting-switching). We found that workers’ perceived fit was higher when they used closed rather than open work settings for individual high-concentration work. Furthermore, more frequent setting-switching was related to higher perceived fit. Unexpectedly, however, this relation was observed only among workers low in activity-switching. These findings indicate that user behavior may indeed be relevant to creating fit in activity-based work environments. To optimize workers’ perceived fit, it seems to be particularly important to facilitate and stimulate the use of closed work settings for individual high-concentration work.
基于活动的工作环境中的感知契合度和用户行为
虽然基于活动的工作在全球范围内越来越受欢迎,但研究表明,员工经常会遇到手头任务与工作环境不匹配的情况。在目前的研究中,使用经验抽样数据来检查基于活动的工作环境中的感知契合度如何与用户行为(即工作设置的使用和设置切换)相关。我们发现,当员工在个人高度集中的工作环境中使用封闭而不是开放的工作环境时,他们的感知契合度更高。此外,更频繁的设置切换与更高的感知契合度相关。然而,出乎意料的是,这种关系只在低活动转换的员工中被观察到。这些发现表明,在以活动为基础的工作环境中,用户行为可能确实与创造契合度有关。为了优化员工的感知契合度,似乎特别重要的是,促进和刺激使用封闭的工作环境来进行个人高度集中的工作。
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CiteScore
13.30
自引率
1.80%
发文量
13
期刊介绍: Environment & Behavior is an interdisciplinary journal designed to report rigorous experimental and theoretical work focusing on the influence of the physical environment on human behavior at the individual, group, and institutional levels.
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