Status Demarcation in the Office

A survey of 529 office workers from three government and three private sector organizations explored the environmental characteristics that demarcate status in the office, the extent to which these characteristics are related to a sense of status support, and the association of status support with w...

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Published in:Environment and behavior 1982-09, Vol.14 (5), p.561-580
Main Authors: Konar, Ellen, Sundstrom, Eric, Brady, Christine, Mandel, David, Rice, Robert W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access control
Governments
Job satisfaction
Job satisfaction/Job dissatisfaction
Offices
Organizations
Perception
Stability
Status/Statuses
Worker/Workers
Workplace/Workplaces
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Summary:A survey of 529 office workers from three government and three private sector organizations explored the environmental characteristics that demarcate status in the office, the extent to which these characteristics are related to a sense of status support, and the association of status support with workspace and job satisfaction. Four types of environmental characteristics (the nature of workspace furnishings, amount of space, capacity for personalization, and the ability to control access by others) discriminated between supervisory (high-status) and nonsupervisory (lowstatus) respondents. Furthermore, each of the four sets of physical environment properties were related to perceptions of appropriate status support, which was in turn predictive of job satisfaction and satisfaction with workspace. Private versus public sector differences and supervisory versus nonsupervisory differences were explored The implications for space planning and evaluation are considered.
ISSN:0013-9165
1552-390X
DOI:10.1177/0013916582145004