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Griffith University Griffith Business School
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Bond University School of Business
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Bond University
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The role of leadership in developing the innovative manager
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 18-12-2015
Yes, I Made It! Proactivity Effectiveness Alleviates the Psychological Costs of Proactive Behavior
Publisher: Academy of Management
Date: 08-2022
Quantitative methods of examining the impact of the physical work environment
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 27-09-2019
The physical work environment and its relationship to stress
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 27-06-2019
Psychological Impacts of Remote Working Under Social Distancing Restrictions
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6754-8.CH001
Abstract: The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in a swift and dramatic global shift in the location of work for many employees. Organizations around the world have implemented remote work arrangements to allow continuity of service while conforming with social distancing requirements. As a result of ongoing uncertainty regarding the current and future pandemics, reduced costs associated with housing employees remotely, and survey results suggesting employees are reluctant to return to a primarily office-based work model, many organisations are implementing ongoing remote arrangements for their employees. This chapter provides a review of current research on the psychological effects of remote working. Recommendations are made regarding future research directions across various remote work environments that will enhance understanding of the psychological effects of remote work under social distancing.
Escaping the Cubicle
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6754-8.CH011
Abstract: A rise in contingent work, the increasing real estate costs for organizations, technological advances, and more recently, restrictions on movement emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in a sharp increase in the number of employees working from home. These have significant implications for in iduals, organizations, and society. Yet the physical work environment within the home has received little attention from scholars. Research on traditional office settings indicates that the physical environment influences a range of well-being and performance outcomes, indicating a critical need for researchers to consider the impact of the physical work environment at home. To address this issue, the authors briefly summarize the effects of the physical work environment and review existing research on working from home. They then propose directions for future research and emerging methodologies to undertake this research. Finally, they detail the practical implications that these changes bring for in iduals, organizations, and society.
Open-plan office noise is stressful: multimodal stress detection in a simulated work environment
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 14-06-2021
DOI: 10.1017/JMO.2021.17
Abstract: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-2019)-induced changes in the workplace present a timely opportunity for human resource management practitioners to consider and remediate the deleterious effects of noise, a commonly cited complaint of employees working in open-plan office (OPO) environments. While self-reports suggest that OPO noise is perceived as a stressor, there is little experimental research comprehensively investigating the effects of noise on employees in terms of their cognitive performance, physiological indicators of stress, and affect. Employing a simulated office setting, we compared the effects of a typical OPO auditory environment to a quieter private office auditory environment on a range of objective and subjective measures of well-being and performance. While OPO noise did not reduce immediate cognitive task performance compared to the quieter environment, it did reduce psychological well-being as evidenced by self-reports of mood, facial expressions of emotion, and physiological indicators of stress in the form of heartrate and skin conductivity. Our research highlights the importance of using a multimodal approach to assess the impact of workplace stressors such as noise. Such an approach will allow HR practitioners to make data-driven recommendations about the design and modification of workspaces to minimize negative effects and support employee well-being.
Using Virtual Reality to Evaluate the Impact of Room Acoustics on Cognitive Performance and Well-Being
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 12-04-2021
DOI: 10.3389/FRVIR.2021.620503
Abstract: Irrelevant ambient noise can have profound effects on human performance and wellbeing. Acoustic interventions (e.g., installation of sound absorbing materials) that reduce intelligible noise (i.e., sound unrelated to the relevant speech, including noise from other talkers within the space) by reducing room reverberation, have been found to be an effective means to alleviate the negative effects of noise on cognitive performance. However, these interventions are expensive, and it is difficult to evaluate their impact in the field. Virtual reality (VR) provides a promising simulation platform to evaluate the likely impact of varied acoustic interventions before they are chosen and installed. This study employed a virtual classroom environment to evaluate whether an intervention to reduce reverberation can be simulated successfully in VR and mitigate the effects of ambient noise on cognitive performance, physiological stress, and mood. The repeated-measures experimental design consisted of three acoustic conditions: no ambient noise, typical open-plan classroom ambient noise without acoustic treatment, and the same ambient noise with acoustic treatment to reduce reverberation. Results revealed that ambient noise negatively affected participants’ cognitive performance but had no measurable effect on physiological stress or self-reported mood. Importantly, the negative effect of ambient noise was completely ameliorated by the acoustic treatment (i.e. indistinguishable from performance in the no noise condition). The study shows that VR provides an effective and efficient means to evaluate the cognitive effects of acoustic interventions.
Psychological perceptions matter: Developing the reactions to the physical work environment scale
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2019
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