Edward Finch (UK University of Salford), Guillermo Aranda-Mena (Australia RMIT University)

Creating Emotionally Intelligent Workspaces

A Design Guide to Office Chemistry

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first of its kind in attempting to match personality types with different working environments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 118
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 230g
• ISBN-13: 9781138602472
• ISBN-10: 1138602477
• Artikelnr.: 57782233

Autorenporträt

Edward Finch is a freelance 'thought leadership' author. He obtained his PhD from the University of Reading in 1989 and was Professor in Facilities Management at Salford University (2008-2011). He acted as Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Facilities for 15 years. His writing challenges technological myopia in the workplace, suggesting that we also need to understand what it means to be human. Guillermo Aranda-Mena is Associate Professor at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, and Visiting Professor of Architecture at Politecnico di Milano, UNESCO Chair in Mantua. In 2003 he completed his PhD at the University of Reading and has since collaborated with numerous universities around the world. He continues to travel widely and divides his time between Singapore, Hong Kong, Mexico, Italy and Melbourne, where he currently resides with his partner Dee and son Memo.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of contents
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Leveraging the power of emotion
What do we mean by emotional intelligence?
Feelings or emotions?
From 'know-how' to 'know who'
Summary
Chapter 2: Understanding emotions in the workplace
The ABC of the human mind
Emotion in stages
Types of emotion
Positive psychology
Emotions in practice
Emotion, mood and temperament
Emotion and the environment
Summary
Chapter 3: Can a workspace motivate us?
Form follows function
Form follows emotion
Evolution of the office
What makes people tick?
Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Physiological needs
Safety needs
Affiliation and belongingness needs
Status and esteem needs
Self-actualisation
Criticisms of Maslow's hierarchy of needs
ERG Theory
Summary
Chapter 4: The many faces of the Intelligent Building
The death of permanence
Layers within layers
The emergence of the intelligent building (IB)
The High-Tech Building
The Flexible Building
The Interoperable Building
The Green Building
The Arrival of the 'Sentient Building'
On collision
Emotion detection
Summary
References
Chapter 5: The Emotionally Intelligent Building
Defining emotional intelligence
Can a workspace have emotional intelligence?
Ability Model
Mixed models
Defining the Emotionally Intelligent Workplace
Making sense of it all
The Three Dimensions of Workspaces
The green bus
Putting the pieces together
Emotional Mechanisms
Creating the emotional palette
An emotionally intelligent work setting
Summary
Chapter 6: Emotion and the instrumental workspace
Understanding the instrumental perspective
The non-territorial office
Laying down the law
Fitting the person to the workplace
User-centred design
Nomad or vagrant?
Replacing physical walls with psychological walls
The emergence of Activity Based Working (ABW)
The truly territorial office
Behaviour Change
Nudge
Summary
Chapter 7: Emotion and the aesthetic workspace
Being there
Aesthetics and the senses
Aesthetics and emotions
Biophilia and Biomorphic design
Fractals
Neuroaesthetics and Neuroarchitecture
Summary
Chapter 8: Emotion and the symbolic workspace
What is a symbol?
Symbolism and the organisation
The production of space
Workplace Identity
Liminal space
Investigating a 'crime scene'
Enclosures
The IKEA Affect
Our Biological Wi-Fi
High-trust culture
Temperament
Summary
Chapter 9: Conclusions
Reflections