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C. Radu:
"Workplace in office buildings and employees engagement";
Supervisor: A. Redlein; Institut für Managementwissenschaften, 2017.

The purpose of this thesis is to illustrate the link between the workplace in office buildings and employees engagement.
The main focus is to understand how the employees are actually influenced by their workplace and working conditions in office buildings around the world, considering cultural differences, office layout type, work environment. Thus, three hypotheses are proposed to be analyzed:
H1: Employee engagement is related to workplace satisfaction
H2: Cultural context influences office layout and engagement levels
H3: Work environment influences employee performance
Using the literature review as a methodical approach, books, journals, reports, research dissertations and thesis, and any other relevant sources were used to evaluate the research problem.
On the basis of the results of this research, it can be concluded that:
. The sense of belonging to the company, the feeling of connection with colleagues, the proud to work for company, the sense of personal achievement, feeling motivated by work, optimistic about the future in the company and the quality of life at work influences the employees´ satisfaction with the workplace and hence the level of employees engagement.
. Cultural differences influence the way office layout are designed and the office layout influence the level of employees engagement.
. The work environment influences performance through factors like: temperature, light, noise, color, air / ventilation, office design, ergonomics, other amenities.

Workplace, office, engagement, performance, satisfaction, cultural context, office layout, work environment

http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/publik_264185.pdf