Department of Business Administration, Reykjavik University, Reykjavik, Iceland.
School of Business, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Ergonomics. 2024 Nov;67(11):1427-1439. doi: 10.1080/00140139.2024.2337065. Epub 2024 Apr 8.
In studies of activity-based work environments, employees' prior attitude towards activity-based work environments has been identified as a potentially essential antecedent to how they perceive the new work environment. Using longitudinal data-collected once before and three times after moving to an activity-based office-we seek to reaffirm the moderating effect of this prior attitude on employee perceptions of privacy and psychological ownership in a sample from two smaller organisations ( = 38 combined). We also explore if employee attitude towards an activity-based work environment is related to personality dimensions. The findings support that prior employee attitude to an activity-based work environment moderates subsequent perceptions of privacy and psychological ownership. Only conscientiousness is significant when examining the association of personality and employee attitude towards an activity-based work environment. Implications of the findings and suggestions for future research are discussed. Questions remain about activity-based work environments. The data shows employee perceptions of privacy and psychological ownership are lower after moving to an activity-based office, but only for employees with less favourable attitudes towards activity-based environments beforehand. Conscientiousness is positively associated with employees' attitude towards activity-based environments before the move.
在基于活动的工作环境研究中，员工对基于活动的工作环境的先前态度被确定为他们如何感知新工作环境的一个潜在重要前提。本研究使用纵向数据，在搬到基于活动的办公室之前和之后各收集一次，旨在重新确认这一先前态度对来自两个较小组织（合并后共 38 名员工）的员工对隐私和心理所有权的感知的调节作用。我们还探讨了员工对基于活动的工作环境的态度是否与人格维度有关。研究结果支持员工对基于活动的工作环境的先前态度会调节随后对隐私和心理所有权的感知。在研究基于活动的工作环境与员工态度的关联时，只有尽责性是显著的。研究结果的意义和对未来研究的建议进行了讨论。关于基于活动的工作环境仍存在一些问题。数据显示，搬到基于活动的办公室后，员工对隐私和心理所有权的感知降低，但仅对先前对基于活动的环境持不利态度的员工而言。在搬迁之前，尽责性与员工对基于活动的环境的态度呈正相关。
