Creating the Productive WorkplaceDerek Clements-Croome A new edition of a classic title, featuring updated and additional material to reflect today’s competitive work environments, contributed by a team of international experts. Essential for anyone involved in the design, management and use of work places, this is a critical multidisciplinary review of the factors affecting productivity, as well a practical solutions manual for common problems and issues. |
Contents
1 Pleasure and joy and their role in human life | 3 |
2 Consciousness wellbeing and the senses | 14 |
3 Indoor environment and productivity | 25 |
the forgotten dimension | 55 |
5 A broad definition of comfort as an aid to meeting commitments on carbondioxide reduction | 75 |
6 Stress adn the changing nature of work | 81 |
Part 2 The economuc case for productivity | 97 |
7 The ecnomics of enhanced environmental services in buildings | 99 |
New directions in theory and assessment | 240 |
Part 5 Case studies | 255 |
BBC case study | 257 |
The SMUD call center and desktop studies | 277 |
18 Managerial and employee involvement in design processes | 310 |
Airconditioning systems of the KI building Tokyo | 323 |
21 Employee productivity and the intelligent workplace | 348 |
The real british office | 357 |
8 Assessment of link between productivity and indoor air quality | 113 |
9 The cognitive workplace | 136 |
Part 3 The nature of productivity | 151 |
the killer variables | 153 |
11 Room temperature effects on office work | 181 |
12 Indoor air quality effects on office work | 193 |
13 Lighting for highquality workplaces | 206 |
Part 4 Concentrating and thinking | 223 |
14 Attention and performance in the workplace | 225 |
23 Future dessign guidelines and tools | 378 |
24 Optimising the working environment | 387 |
Part 6 The future | 395 |
the key to the reinvention of the office | 397 |
26 A procedure to estimate the costeffectiveness of the indoor environment improvements in office work | 407 |
The value management approach | 434 |
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