Architecture, Design & Ergonomics

2023 GSA Digital Workplace

Cristina Banks, PhD
2023
Topic: What do occupants need? The Goal

“The state of positive mental, physical, and social functioning in which workers’ experiences of their work and working conditions enable them to thrive in their overall lives, contributing to their ability to achieve their full potential in their work, home, and community.”

What Supports employees doing their work well. Provides opportunities for cognitive refreshment. Provides comfortable amounts of environmental control. Supports bonding among employees. Protects employee safety and security. Provides choice in place and timing of activities...

2022 WAW: Healthy Workplaces as a Pathway Through Hectic Times

Cristina Banks, PhD
Christina Maslach, PhD
Alan Witt, PhD
Siw Tone Innstrand, PhD
Sally Augustin, PhD, MBA
Michael P. Leiter, PhD
Ragnhilk Wiik, PhD
Marit Christensen, PhD
2022
2022 Wellbeing at Work Conference Symposium: Wellbeing in Hectic Times Topic: Healthy Workplaces as a Pathway Through Hectic Times (Cristina Banks, Christina Maslach) Opening Remarks New Groundwork The Framework Why the need for an interdisciplinary approach to health, well-being, and productivity? Important Organizational Features for Health, Well-Being and Productivity (Siw Tone Innstrand, Ragnhild Wiik, Marit Christensen, Cristina Banks & Christina Maslach) Health and work cycle What creates a healthy workplace? Description of the study conducted in two countries, Norway and the US, in...

2022 HBCD: What Underlies Well-Being? Satisfying Human Needs

Cristina Banks, PhD
2022
2022 Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study Topic: What Underlies Well-Being? Satisfying Human Needs Contents: The Objective: Human Thriving How do we achieve that objective? What are the basic needs we need to satisfy? How do we design for need satisfaction? Key environments for need satisfaction What needs are satisfied working from home? What needs are satisfied at the office? What needs are satisfied in the field?

2021 SIOP: The Case for a Shift in Strategic HR: Healthy Workplaces as a Benefit (Poster)

Cristina Banks, PhD
Alan Witt, PhD
2021
2021 SIOP Virtual Congress Topic: The Case for a Shift in Strategic HR: Healthy Workplaces as a Benefit Abstract

Performance equals ability and what (Dunnette, 1973)? Studies have typically operationalized intrinsic motivation in terms of the behaviors of, and policies implemented by, supervisors—neglecting the physical environment. Similarly, HR practices rarely consider the physical environment. We focus on healthy workplaces, which involves the intersection of the behavioral and physical environments.

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A healthy workplace is an underappreciated strategic benefit...

2021 Work, Health, and Stress: Healthy Workplace Design for Hybrid Work Arrangements (Poster)

2021
2021 Work, Health, and Stress Poster Presentation Topic: Healthy Workplace Design for Hybrid Work Arrangements Brief Summary

COVID-19 has taught us a great deal about employees’ basic needs and the importance of addressing these needs during and after COVID. A “hybrid” work arrangement has emerged as the strategic choice for businesses to address employees’ concerns about returning to the workplace and maintaining their autonomy regarding when and where they work. This study evaluates the degree to which workplace designs under a hybrid work arrangement promote employee health, well-being...

2021 APA: Workplace Technology that Promotes Health and Well-Being

Cristina Banks, PhD
Sally Augustin, PhD, MBA
2021
2021 APA Convention: Technology, Mind, and Society Topic: Workplace Technology that Promotes Health and Well-Being

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We ask the question: Which in-workplace technologies actually support employee health and well-being in concrete and impactful ways, and which technology does not?” We focus on how technology can support health and well-being in general and in particular, reduce the likelihood of employee burnout. Our assessment based on...

2021 ELA: Health and Wellness

Cristina Banks, PhD
2021
2021 Executive Leadership Academy Topic: Health and Wellness: What’s COVID got to do with it? Contents: Your body response Our core needs How do we design for need satisfaction? What's COVID got to do with it? What needs are satisfied working from home? What needs are satisfied at the worksite? What matters in the physical environment What matters in the psychological environment Case study What you can do

2021 STEER: The New Built Environment: Health, Well-Being, and Productivity

Cristina Banks, PhD
2021
2021 STEER Topic: The New Built Environment: Health, Well-Being, and Productivity Definition of built environment ICHW model of worker health and well-being Implications What do we need to address? Physical and psychological good factors The built environment targets: physical elements The built environment targets: psychosocial elements Burnout

2021 ANFA: Spaces for Creative Thinking- Integrating Neuroscience Research Findings in Real-Time & Spaces (Poster)

Cristina Banks, PhD
Sally Augustin, PhD, MBA
Cynthia Milota, MA
2021
2021 ANFA Topic: Spaces for Creative Thinking- Integrating Neuroscience Research Findings in Real-Time & Spaces

Neuroscientists have comprehensively assessed the form of environments that support creative thinking, most often in studies that detail the effects of a single physical factor.

These research projects have determined that aspects of indoor physical environments influence the likelihood of creative thinking taking place in a space. Creativity linked design elements include color (surface and light), visual complexity, plants in view, natural lighting, visible wood...

2021 Healthy Campus Webinar: Healthy Workplaces by Design

Cristina Banks, PhD
2021
2021 Healthy Campus Webinar: Healthy Workplaces by Design Contents: The components of healthy workplaces (Healthy Workplaces Model) The importance of satisfying basic human needs How to build in health and well-being through “drivers” of need satisfaction How one can make small changes in the workplace through “hacking” Need satisfaction working from home vs. working at the office Anticipating new needs in a post-COVID world