Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/14520
Full metadata record
DC FieldValueLanguage
dc.contributor.advisorEsat, I-
dc.contributor.advisorKhoshnoud, F-
dc.contributor.authorAlnassar, Nouf Saad-
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-09T13:49:45Z-
dc.date.available2017-05-09T13:49:45Z-
dc.date.issued2016-
dc.identifier.urihttp://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/14520-
dc.descriptionThis thesis was submitted for the award of Doctor of Philosophy and was awarded by Brunel University Londonen_US
dc.description.abstractPast research has confirmed that workplace design affects employee productivity. It is known to affect the employees both psychologically and professionally. Past researchers have looked at it from ergonomic, architectural and other perspectives. However, this research is limited to certain professions such as nursing and construction. However, the research indicates that sing workplace design it is possible to improve productivity of employees in other professions as well. This research aims to focus on how workplace designs can improve productivity of teachers. Teaching is an intellectual/ non manual work and hence design considerations for teachers should be more psychological in nature. Little research has been conducted on improving workplaces designs for non manual workers. Also past research has not paid sufficient attention to gender aspects of workplace design. This research looks at how designers’ consideration of culture, gender and profession of the occupants at the time of designing will affect employees’ perception of the psychological, social and functional quality of their workplace and consequently their productivity. This research primarily fills three gaps in existing literature: Firstly, it focuses on gender of occupants and how considering this during workplace design can affect the productivity of employees. Secondly, it looks at impact of workplace design on teachers, who carry out intellectual non manual work. Thirdly, this study is conducted in context of Saudi Arabia with an aim to reduce the scarcity of similar research in context of Saudi Arabia. Data or this research was collected in two stages. Firstly, female academics provided self-observation data in form of comments using a mobile app which was developed specifically for the purpose of this research. This data was quantified using thematic analysis approach and quantified data was analysed using regression analysis. The second aspect of this research included collecting quantitative data using semi-structured interviews with designers who have worked on designing all-female universities in Saudi Arabia. This research finds that by taking cultural, gender and professional factors into consideration it is possible to improve the social, psychological and functional experience of occupants of the workplace and this is likely to improve their ability to achieve organisational and personal objectives. This research, thus concludes that cultural, gender and professional consideration affect the employees; ability to contribute to employees’ and organisational outcomes.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipSaudi Arabia Cultural Bureauen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherBrunel University Londonen_US
dc.relation.urihttp://bura.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/14520/1/FulltextThesis.pdf-
dc.subjectWorkplace designen_US
dc.subjectFemale academicsen_US
dc.subjectSaudi all-female universitiesen_US
dc.titleInvestigating the impact of cultural, gender and professional design considerations on employee productivity: case study of female academics in Saudi female universitiesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
Appears in Collections:Design
Dept of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses

Files in This Item:
File Description SizeFormat 
FulltextThesis.pdf.7.15 MBAdobe PDFView/Open


Items in BURA are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.