Psychology

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 CoreNet: Collaboration is the Secret Sauce for Satisfying Hybrid Workforce

Alex Alonso, PhD
Sally Augustin, PhD, MBA
Cristina Banks, PhD
Drew Jones, PhD
2021
2021 CoreNet Global Summit: Be the Bridge Topic: Collaboration is the Secret Sauce for a Satisfying Hybrid Workforce Contents Thriving, not just surviving What we know from employers Designing for people outcomes Ethnography and the power of observation and experience Problem-based research to develop employee-centered solutions Let employee choice drive your company’s unique approach to hybrid working

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 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

2020 ACS: Healthy Workplaces During Covid-19

Cristina Banks, PhD
2020
2020 ACS Healthy Workplaces During Covid-19 Contents Employee experience Consequences of 100 years of Scientific Management What went wrong? Contemporary approaches to work motivation focus on human needs What are our basic needs? What is a healthy workplace? Why a healthy workplace is important for humans Contributions from the physical environment Contributions from the psychological environment Enter Covid-19 Where people are working and not working today Remote working positives Remote work negatives What needs are not fulfilled with remote work? Taking care of our basic needs How to...

2019 WSH: Development of a Healthy Workplace Assessment (Poster)

Cristina Banks, PhD
Christina Maslach, PhD
Siw Tone Innstrand, PhD
Marit Christensen, PhD
Ragnhilk Wiik, PhD
2019
2019 Work, Stress, and Health (WSH) Topic: Development of a Healthy Workplace Assessment

UC Berkeley and two Norwegian universities, NTNU and BI Business School Stavanger, worked collaboratively to create a cross-culturally relevant assessment tool that can assess the degree to which a workplace embodies organizational elements proven to promote employee health and well-being. Through an iterative process, both US and Norwegian teams identified validated items to include in the new tool. The US team developed new items based on need theories (Maslach & Banks, 2017) where employees are...

2019 HFES: It Takes Partners to Create Solutions Management Wants

Cristina Banks, PhD
Kathleen Mosier, PhD
Kriss Kennedy
Christopher Miller
Andrew Imada
2019
2019 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) Annual Meeting Topic: It Takes Partners to Create Solutions Management Wants

The notion of interdisciplinarity is inherent in the principles of human factors and ergonomics. HFE can be described as a multi-disciplinary, user-centric ‘bundling science,’ in that it applies theory, principles, and data from many relevant disciplines to the design of work systems, taking into account the complex interactions between the human and other humans, the external environment, tools and equipment, and technology to enhance human performance and well-...

2019 CoreNet: Our Next Now: Work Experiences for Continuous Learning

Melissa Jancourt CID, LEEP-AP
Cristina Banks, PhD
2019
2019 CoreNet Global Summit Topic: Our Next Now: Work Experiences for Continueous Learning Contents About this study Key findings