| dc.description.abstract | The topic of this thesis is about how the physical work environment affects individual productivity, and with focus on productivity through the well-being aspect of individuals. The thesis has a theoretical approach with a pilot-exercise including a pilot experiment and questionnaire. This approach was chosen as the research question is comprehensive, and with the timeframe to complete this thesis. A theoretical approach gives the possibility to further go into the subject, and the pilot-exercise gives insight into how a larger-scale study on this topic could be conducted. Further, the physical work environment contains several elements that can affect an individual’s productivity and well-being, so the physical work environment aspect has been restricted to only looking at one factor, which is the color aspect.
The thesis research question is:
“How does the physical work environment affect individual productivity?”
The hypothesis in the thesis focuses on how color affects individual well-being, and to test for this a pilot-exercise was used, where the objective is to provide learning points that can be used in a full-scale study. There will be used a quantitative approach, where both a pilot experiment and questionnaire is created to collect the data needed, which can contribute with learning points. In total the pilot-exercises had a sample of thirty participants that were divided between two different color environments, the sample was too small to give any results but it will give learning points regarding the methods used.
A statistical program, Stata, was used to analyze the results from the pilot-exercise, where the data from the pilot experiment and questionnaire were analyzed by using an independent samples t-test. An analysis was conducted, even though knowing that the sample was too small to give any real conclusion if the hypothesis should be rejected or not.
The results from the analyses done on the pilot experiment and questionnaire gave no significant results, which was expected due to the sample size used, but it did provide valuable insight into how a larger-scale study could be conducted. The theoretical approach showed that the physical work environment impacts people both physically and psychologically, and that the individual productivity is affected by the physical work environment both negatively and positively. | nb_NO |
