Project

Designing for the Healthy Office: Gen Z Focus Group

September 24, 2018

The ICHW led a focus group study aimed at understanding the ways physical elements of workplaces impact worker well-being and productivity. The focus group took place on Monday, September 24th, 2018 on the UC Berkeley campus.

In this focus group session, participants experienced a proposed workplace design using innovative virtual reality (VR) technology and provided insight about their perceptions and feedback through dynamic discussions and brainstorming activities. The aim of the research project is to articulate and validate innovative workplace design ideas to promote worker...

Announcement: ICHW Core Researchers Awarded a Peder Sather Team Expansion Grant

The “Understanding Healthy Workplaces: Cross-Cultural Comparisons between Norway and the United States” project has been awarded a Peder Sather Team Expansion Grant in the amount of $15,000 as a complement to the previous grant from the 2018 Peder Sather Grant Program Awards. The extended grant will also serve to...

Exploring Basic Psychological Needs and Health Among Academics

This study investigates the relationship between need satisfaction and positive and negative health. The dataset comes from a survey administered in several colleges and universities in Norway, led by a visiting scholar at Berkeley, Siw Tone Innstrand. Innstrand, along with Christina Maslach and Cristina Banks, examined the scales used in the survey designed to examine engagement for academics, administrators, and graduate students, and several outcomes including health. Scales were identified as representing one of each of the eight needs identified in the HealthyWorkplaces Model....