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The Influence Of Work Station Architecture On Work Perceptions And Work Behavior, Connie L. True
The Influence Of Work Station Architecture On Work Perceptions And Work Behavior, Connie L. True
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A field study was conducted to find whether open office architecture is related to employees' perceptions of their jobs and their work groups, and to their behavior in and around their work stations. Fifty-two employees in the administrative division of a large manufacturing operation volunteered to participate by answering a questionnaire and allowing their work stations to be analyzed for levels of visual access and visual exposure, the two independent variables. Access and exposure, at first theorized to be independent and interacting functions, were found to be too highly correlated in this open off ice setting to test as originally …