Department of Occupational Health Sciences and Psychology, University of Gävle, 801 76 Gävle, Sweden.
Department of Human Work Science, Luleå University of Technology, 971 87 Luleå, Sweden.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Oct 19;19(20):13557. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192013557.
This longitudinal study examines the impact of office type on employees' perception of managers' leadership behaviours, which is an unexplored area. The expanding research related to activity-based flexible offices (AFOs) has mainly focused on employees' working conditions and health outcomes, not on the changes in leadership behaviours when moving from traditional offices to AFOs. Office workers ( = 261) from five office sites within a large Swedish government agency were included in a controlled study of a natural intervention. At four sites, traditional offices were replaced by AFOs, while workers at one site with no relocation acted as the control. The same employees rated different leadership behaviours in a web-based questionnaire at baseline and at one follow-up. The analyses showed that relocations from cell and open-plan offices to AFOs were clearly related to a decrease in the perception of relation-oriented leadership behaviours. However, coming from open-plan offices to AFOs also decreased the perception of the other leadership dimensions. As expected, the control group was stable over time in their perceptions. This emphasises the need for organisations to provide managers with prerequisites so they can keep up with behaviours that support employees' performance and health when office designs and ways of working are changed.
本纵向研究考察了办公类型对员工对经理领导行为看法的影响，这是一个尚未被探索的领域。与基于活动的灵活办公（AFO）相关的扩展研究主要集中在员工的工作条件和健康结果上，而不是在从传统办公室转移到 AFO 时领导行为的变化。在一个大型瑞典政府机构的五个办公地点，包括来自 261 名办公室工作人员的参与了一项自然干预的对照研究。在四个地点，传统办公室被 AFO 取代，而一个没有搬迁的办公地点的员工则作为对照组。相同的员工在基线和一次随访时通过网络问卷对不同的领导行为进行了评分。分析表明，从细胞式和开放式办公室搬迁到 AFO 与关系导向型领导行为的感知度下降明显相关。然而，从开放式办公室转移到 AFO 也降低了对其他领导维度的感知。正如预期的那样，对照组在其认知上随时间保持稳定。这强调了组织需要为管理人员提供先决条件，以便在办公室设计和工作方式发生变化时，能够保持支持员工绩效和健康的行为。
