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Creating the productive workplace / edited by Derek Clements-Croome.

Contributor(s): Clements-Croome, Derek.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : E & FN Spon, 2000Description: xxi, 360 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0419236902.Subject(s): Industrial productivity -- Congresses | Environmental protection -- Congresses | Environmental policy -- Congresses | Work environment -- CongressesDDC classification: 658.314
Contents:
Part 1: Creativity, Environment and People -- Indoor Environment and Productivity ; Conscious,Well-Being and the Senses / Derek Clements-Croome -- Creativity in the Workplace / Jackie Townsend -- Pleasure and Joy, and Their role in Human Life / Micheal Cabanac -- Emotion and the Environment: The Forgotten Dimension / Mahtab Akhavan Farshchi and Norman Fisher -- A Broad Definition of Comfort as an Aid to Meeting Commitments on Carbon Dioxide Reduction / Max Fordham -- Stress and the Changing Nature of Work / Valarie Sutherland and Cary L. Cooper -- Part 2: The Economic Case for Productivity -- The Economics of Enhanced Environmental Services in Buildings / David H. Mudarri -- Assessment of Link Between Productivity and Indoor Air Quality / Charles E. and Chad B. Dorgan -- Part 3: The Nature of Productivity -- Assessment and Measurement of Productivity / Derek Clements-Croome and Yamuna Kaluarachchi -- Productivity in Buildings: The 'Killer' Variables / Adrian Leaman and Bill Bordass -- Individual Control at each Workplace: the Means and the Protential Benefits / David P. Wyon -- Creating High-Quality Workplaces Using Lighting / Jennifer A. Veitch -- Part 4: Concentration and Thinking -- Attention and Performance in the Workplace / Roy Davis -- Concentration and Attention: New Directions in Theory and Assessment / David A.Schwartz and Stephen Kaplan -- Part 5: Case Studies -- tManagerial and Employee Involvement in Design Processes / Jean E. Neumann -- The Intelligent Workplace: A Research Laboratory / Volker Hartkopf and Marshall Hemphill -- Air-conditioning Systems of the KI Building ,Tokyo / Hidetoshi Takenoya -- Employee Productivity and the Intelligent Workplace / Walter M. Kroner -- Future Design-Guidelines and Tools / John Doggart -- Optimising the Working Environment / John H.Jukes -- Part 6: The Future -- New Ways Of Working: A Vision of the Future / Francis Duffy.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 658.314 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00075156
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: Creativity, Environment and People -- Indoor Environment and Productivity ; Conscious,Well-Being and the Senses / Derek Clements-Croome -- Creativity in the Workplace / Jackie Townsend -- Pleasure and Joy, and Their role in Human Life / Micheal Cabanac -- Emotion and the Environment: The Forgotten Dimension / Mahtab Akhavan Farshchi and Norman Fisher -- A Broad Definition of Comfort as an Aid to Meeting Commitments on Carbon Dioxide Reduction / Max Fordham -- Stress and the Changing Nature of Work / Valarie Sutherland and Cary L. Cooper -- Part 2: The Economic Case for Productivity -- The Economics of Enhanced Environmental Services in Buildings / David H. Mudarri -- Assessment of Link Between Productivity and Indoor Air Quality / Charles E. and Chad B. Dorgan -- Part 3: The Nature of Productivity -- Assessment and Measurement of Productivity / Derek Clements-Croome and Yamuna Kaluarachchi -- Productivity in Buildings: The 'Killer' Variables / Adrian Leaman and Bill Bordass -- Individual Control at each Workplace: the Means and the Protential Benefits / David P. Wyon -- Creating High-Quality Workplaces Using Lighting / Jennifer A. Veitch -- Part 4: Concentration and Thinking -- Attention and Performance in the Workplace / Roy Davis -- Concentration and Attention: New Directions in Theory and Assessment / David A.Schwartz and Stephen Kaplan -- Part 5: Case Studies -- tManagerial and Employee Involvement in Design Processes / Jean E. Neumann -- The Intelligent Workplace: A Research Laboratory / Volker Hartkopf and Marshall Hemphill -- Air-conditioning Systems of the KI Building ,Tokyo / Hidetoshi Takenoya -- Employee Productivity and the Intelligent Workplace / Walter M. Kroner -- Future Design-Guidelines and Tools / John Doggart -- Optimising the Working Environment / John H.Jukes -- Part 6: The Future -- New Ways Of Working: A Vision of the Future / Francis Duffy.

Proceedings of a conference held in Westminster Central Hall, London on October 29-30, 1997.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Foreword - Nick Raynsford, Minister for Construction, DETR
  • Creativity, Environment and People
  • Creativity in the Workplace
  • Pleasure and Joy, and their Role in Human Life
  • Emotion and Environment: The Forgotten Dimension
  • A Broad Definition of Comfort
  • Stress and the Changing Nature of Work
  • The Economic Case for Productivity
  • The Economics of Enhanced Environmental Services in Buildings
  • Productivity Link Assessment to Indoor Air Quality
  • The Nature of Productivity
  • Productivity in the Workplace
  • Productivity in Buildings: The Killer Variables
  • Individual Control at each Workplace
  • Creating High Quality Workplaces using Lighting
  • Concentration & Thinking
  • Attention and Performance in the Workplace
  • Concentration and Attention: New Directions in Theory and Assessment
  • Case Studies
  • The Role of Perception, Designing for Productivity and Wellbeing
  • The Intelligent Workplace: A Research Laboratory
  • Airconditioning Systems of the K. I. Building in Tokyo
  • Employee, Productivity in the Intelligent Workplace
  • Future Design: Guidelines and Tools
  • Optimising the Working Environment
  • The Future
  • Work Performance Improvement, using Facilities management
  • New Ways of Working: A Vision of the Future
  • Appendix
  • Index

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