Occupant productivity and office indoor environment quality : a review of the literature

The purpose of this paper is to review the existing literature to draw an understanding of the relationship between indoor environmental quality and occupant productivity in an office environment. The study reviews over 300 papers from 67 journals, conference articles and books focusing on indoor environment, occupant comfort, productivity and green buildings. It limits its focus to the physical aspects of an office environment. The literature outlines eight Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) factors that influence occupant productivity in an office environment. It also discusses different physical parameters under each of the IEQ factors. It proposes a conceptual model of different factors affecting occupant productivity. The study also presents a review of the data collection methods utilised by the research studies that aim to investigate the relationship between IEQ and occupant productivity. The study presents a comprehensive discussion and analysis of different IEQ factors that affect occupant productivity. The paper provides a concise starting point for future researchers interested in the area of indoor environmental quality

Employees Resistance Within a Knowledge Intensive Firm

The purpose of this article is to provide an empirical basis for understanding the issue of resistance within knowledge intensive firms. The paper initially provides a theoretical investigation identifying the research gap within the literature. The research gap further is explored through an empirical research. Research findings derive from the analysis of 11 in-depth interviews taken from a new media consultancy in UK. Moreover, the findings distinctively support that, staff resistance is beyond previously (traditional) assumed polar distinctions. In that way, the investigation illustrates that, staff resistance combines opposing meanings of their actions. Thus, it is revealed new aspects of employees resistance within the case organization, a knowledge intensive firm (KIF).peerReviewe

In use cultural values enhance the knowledge processes of creation, transfer and implementation that lead to innovation : the over-creating knowledge theory

This doctoral thesis original contribution is based on providing an integrative framework of the in use cultural values that enhance the knowledge processes of creation, transfer and implementation that result in multiple product innovations. In order, the researcher to find out these in use values, he had to understand the deep meaning that resides beneath the social relations that are developed within the case . organisations. This required to be interpreted the actions, behaviour of staff across . different instances and the organisational artefacts. In this way, it is understood, from ! internal organisational aspect, the meaning of various in use values (as assumptions that are possessed by organisational members) which is found to interrelate with, as enhance, the creation of knowledge in the form of new products. I The over-creating knowledge theory (empirically constructed by this thesis) advances the existing understanding about the creation of knowledge within environments characterised by great intensity in the construction of multiple project-innovations. The over-creating knowledge theory is mainly a study on the common behaviour of employees, at the individual, team and organisational level, showing which in use values and how they facilitate the creation of knowledge within creative organisations of small and medium size. Moreover, this research revealed the ambiguities and ambivalences that, the staff experience in the knowledge creation process that leads to innovation. Also, it is shown the mechanisms that are adopted by the aforementioned staff so as through their sense making (about the organisational reality) to subjugate the discourses of their actions. In addition, the over-creating knowledge theory explains that employees, by rationalising their strong belief in creating knowledge, systematically and persistently increase the quality of their work advancing their abilities and skills. Moreover, the over-creating knOWledge theory is founded on four types of processes that employees follow in the construction of project-innovations. The first is to expand the existingEThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo