What is it about?
This paper describes the characteristics of the workplace that can help to promote motivation. It offers a new model and a measure to help design workplaces that have a motivating potential, and supports these with data from 17 UK organizations.
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Why is it important?
Understanding the characteristics of the workplace that can promote motivation is important because it can help employers to develop good workplaces. The paper also offers a validated measure to assess the workplace characteristics as experienced by individuals.
Perspectives
This paper offers the new concept of workplace design and a novel perspective to understanding workplaces. Motivation (and by extension well-being and performance) does not reside in the individual only and is not simply about the job itself. Rather, it also comes from aspects of the workplace that can promote or inhibit it.
Dr Maria Karanika-Murray
Nottingham Trent University
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This page is a summary of: Workplace design, Journal of Organizational Effectiveness People and Performance, September 2015, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/joepp-08-2014-0048.
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