The Social and Spatial Ecology of Work
Subtitle: The Case of a Survey Research Organization (Springer Studies in Work and Industry)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: March 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780306462252
Subjects: Work & labour; Industrial Psychology; Social Science; Psychology; Sociology; Industrial & Organizational Psychology; Psychology & Psychiatry / Occupational & Industrial Psychology; Social Science / Sociology / General; Sociology - General; Industrial Sociology; Personal space; Psychology, Industrial; Spatial behavior
First sentence: The crux of the problem, and the issue for this book, lies in the thesis that work settings are impoverished and inadequate when they are narrowly conceptualized and designed by "rational criteria" such as function and cost, and when they are defined solely by their physical parameters.