Creating Workplaces Where People Can Think (Jossey-Bass Management Series) [Paperback]

Phyl Smith (Author), Lynn Kearny (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1555426174 | ISBN-13: 978-1555426170 | Publication Date: April 1, 1994 | Edition: 1st

Boost employee performance by providing a pleasant, workable
environment. This unique reference offers detailed guidelines and methods for determining how design problems in your organization may interfere with performance. Through real-life examples and a case study, this book will help you implement, evaluate, and monitor a work environment-performance intervention. You'll get hands-on reusable worksheets, checklists, surveys, and cost-estimate forms to help you plan workspace for optimum performance.

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"A valuable approach to creating productive interior environments. This is a new look at problem solving." --Marilyn Farrow, president, Institute of Business Designers

"A whole new way of analyzing and improving the place where the work gets done." --Allison Rossett, professor, San Diego State University

From the Inside Flap

From Training to Performance in the 21st Century is a series sponsored by the National Society for Performance and Instruction (NSPI), which provides valuable how-to resources to help trainers, human resource professionals, and human performance technologists improve performance in the workplace. This book is part of the first three-volume set, "Designing the Work Environment for Optimum Performance," which shows how to "fix the workplace, not the worker." The set provides hands-on tools to help create work environments that support human performance.Draws on research in environmental psychology, cognitive psychology, workplace design, and organizational behavior to offer detailed guidelines and methods for determining how design problems may interfere with performance. Through real-life examples and a comprehensive case study. Explains how to implement, evaluate, and monitor a typical work environment--performance intervention. Provides hands-on, reusable worksheets, checklists, and survey and cost-estimate forms for reducing or eliminating performance-related problems due to inadequate workspace.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Pfeiffer; 1st edition (April 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555426174
• ISBN-13: 978-1555426170
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,156,933 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Guide to organize a workplace for architects & managers, April 12, 2000

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Mariano L. Bernardez "International Business ... (Chicago, Buenos Aires, Madrid) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Creating Workplaces Where People Can Think (Jossey-Bass Management Series) (Paperback)

I've used this excellent guide to reorganize workplaces with clients and in my own firm., Its guidelines & checklists allow the readers to participate and architects & managers to apply organizational and psychological criteria with clients and working together.