Special Issue "A Sustainability Perspective on Office Environment Influence on Employees and Organizations"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Psychology of Sustainability and Sustainable Development".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Christina Bodin Danielsson
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Guest Editor
Department of Architecture, School of Architecture and Built Environment, The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Osquars backe 9, 114 28 Stockholm, Sweden
Interests: sustainable design; supportive work environment; architectural quality; health; performance; sickness absence; job satisfaction

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainability and an inclusive perspective on an office environment’s influence on employees and organizations cover different aspects in a broad and interdisciplinary field of research. This Special Issue will gather the work of scientists investigating the sustainability of office design and organizations from a wide perspective. In the search for knowledge about the subject, we welcome various perspectives and approaches, including empirical and theoretical research on various concepts, theories, and methods.

The subject of sustainable office design includes various fields such as architecture, which provides a sustainability perspective on the built environment through green building and inclusive design that supports people with various needs and of different ages, including of studies architectural design impact on physical activity and wayfinding, place attachment, and sense of belonging; environmental and social psychology, which investigate the office environment influences on attitudes and behavior from a sustainable perspective at individual and group levels; organizational management and communication, which focus on corporate and employee branding, interested in the symbolism of the sustainability perspective on the built environment; real estate and facility management, which study the subject with regards to productivity and added value from an investment perspective; organizational behavior, which explores workplaces from various perspectives, e.g., from emotional and conflicts perspectives; and occupational health, which applies a health, wellbeing, and job satisfaction perspective to the study of sustainable work environments.

The description above shows the breadth of the subject of sustainability from office environment and organizational perspectives. In this Special Issue, we welcome different scientific approaches to the subject with a special focus on empirical research. Studies applying conceptual, strategic, and theoretical approaches are welcome, but only if they apply a sustainability perspective on the environment influences on employees and organizations. By collecting the research from the wide and interdisciplinary research field on the subject we aim to provide a good overview on the field. We hope to make research in this field of research more accessible by contributing to the knowledge development of sustainability in the field of office environment influence on employees and organizations.

Dr. Christina Bodin Danielsson
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

  • sustainable design
  • inclusive design
  • work environment
  • sustainable organization
  • symbolism
  • branding
  • emotions
  • health
  • wellbeing
  • job satisfaction
  • productivity
  • behavior
  • sense of belonging
  • physical activity

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A Socio-Technical Perspective on the Application of Green Ergonomics to Open-Plan Offices: A Review of the Literature and Recommendations for Future Research
Sustainability 2021, 13(15), 8236; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158236 - 23 Jul 2021
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Open-plan office (OPO) layouts emerged to allow organizations to adapt to changing workplace demands. We explore the potential for OPOs to provide such adaptive capacity to respond to two contemporary issues for organizations: the chronic challenge of environmental sustainability, and the acute challenges [...] Read more.
Open-plan office (OPO) layouts emerged to allow organizations to adapt to changing workplace demands. We explore the potential for OPOs to provide such adaptive capacity to respond to two contemporary issues for organizations: the chronic challenge of environmental sustainability, and the acute challenges emerging from the great COVID-19 homeworking experiment. We apply a socio-technical systems perspective and green ergonomics principles to investigate the relationship between an OPO environment and the occupants working within it. In doing so, we consider relevant technical and human factors, such as green technology and employee green behavior. We also consider how a green OPO might provide non-carbon benefits such as improving occupant well-being and supporting the emergence of a green organizational culture. Our investigation highlights several avenues through which an OPO designed with green ergonomic principles could benefit occupants, the organizations they work for, and the natural environment of which they are a part and on which they depend. We find reason to suspect that green OPOs could play an important role in sustainable development; and offer a research agenda to help determine whether it is true that OPOs can, indeed, exemplify how “going green” may be good for business. Full article
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