Studying the influence of workplace design on productivity of bank clerks
Introduction: Workplace design is one of the factors that can influence comfort, performance, productivity and the health status of employees. The effects of this factor on human’s productivity and performance are studied in the domain of ergonomics. The impact of workplace design on worke...
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Tehran University of Medical Sciences
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| author | Seyed Abolfazl Zakerian Ehsan Garosi Ziba Abdi Ehsan Bakhshi Mehrdad Kamrani Reza Kalantari |
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| description | Introduction: Workplace design is one of the factors that can influence comfort, performance, productivity and the health status of employees. The effects of this factor on human’s productivity and performance are studied in the domain of ergonomics. The impact of workplace design on workers’ productivity and performance can be determined by investigation of the quality of the design. The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the influence of workplace design on productivity of the bank clerks.
Material and Method: Samples in this cross-sectional study were comprised of 150 employees of 22 different branches of a bank in Tehran city. Data collection tools included demographic questionnaire and a questionnaire related to the effects of workplace design on employees’ productivity, developed by Hameed and colleagues. Correlation and regression statistical tests were used in order to analyze data.
Result: According to the results, the mean (±SD) for age and job tenure of participants were 37.2(±6) and 13(±7) years, respectively. Of the surveyed demographic features, a significant relationship was observed between age and scores belonging to the temperature and furniture (P-value<0.05). In addition, there was a significant association between employees’ productivity and the noise (P-value=0.044) and spatial arrangement of environment (P-value=0.048).
Conclusion: Overall, appropriate and high quality design of work environment can improve productivity of bank clerks. In other words, employees’ productivity can be enhanced by comfortable and ergonomic design of working environment and also by considering their needs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6792c709f3c94440af27822952b774e92022-12-21T21:53:04ZfasTehran University of Medical Sciencesبهداشت و ایمنی کار2251-807X2383-20882016-06-01623542Studying the influence of workplace design on productivity of bank clerksSeyed Abolfazl Zakerian0Ehsan Garosi1Ziba Abdi2Ehsan Bakhshi3Mehrdad Kamrani4Reza Kalantari5 Associate Professor, Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran M.Sc. of Ergonomics, Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran M.Sc. of Ergonomics, Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Hamedan University of Medical Sciences, Hamedan, Iran M.Sc. of Ergonomics, Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran M.Sc. of Occupational Health Engineering, Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran M.Sc. of Ergonomics, Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Introduction: Workplace design is one of the factors that can influence comfort, performance, productivity and the health status of employees. The effects of this factor on human’s productivity and performance are studied in the domain of ergonomics. The impact of workplace design on workers’ productivity and performance can be determined by investigation of the quality of the design. The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the influence of workplace design on productivity of the bank clerks. Material and Method: Samples in this cross-sectional study were comprised of 150 employees of 22 different branches of a bank in Tehran city. Data collection tools included demographic questionnaire and a questionnaire related to the effects of workplace design on employees’ productivity, developed by Hameed and colleagues. Correlation and regression statistical tests were used in order to analyze data. Result: According to the results, the mean (±SD) for age and job tenure of participants were 37.2(±6) and 13(±7) years, respectively. Of the surveyed demographic features, a significant relationship was observed between age and scores belonging to the temperature and furniture (P-value<0.05). In addition, there was a significant association between employees’ productivity and the noise (P-value=0.044) and spatial arrangement of environment (P-value=0.048). Conclusion: Overall, appropriate and high quality design of work environment can improve productivity of bank clerks. In other words, employees’ productivity can be enhanced by comfortable and ergonomic design of working environment and also by considering their needs.http://jhsw.tums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-14&slc_lang=en&sid=1Bank Employees Environmental Ergonomics Productivity Workplace Design |
| spellingShingle | Seyed Abolfazl Zakerian Ehsan Garosi Ziba Abdi Ehsan Bakhshi Mehrdad Kamrani Reza Kalantari Studying the influence of workplace design on productivity of bank clerks بهداشت و ایمنی کار Bank Employees Environmental Ergonomics Productivity Workplace Design |
| title | Studying the influence of workplace design on productivity of bank clerks |
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| topic | Bank Employees Environmental Ergonomics Productivity Workplace Design |
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