EFFECTS OF WORK PLACE DESIGN ON BEHAVIORS

Nowadays people spend most of their time inside an enveloped building, their thoughts molded by the walls. In the eagerness of running with time the capitalist minds have forced humans to live like a machine which has resulted in much distress and mental tension as a part and parcel. So today, an average office worker has less productivity at the workplace and he/she comes home carrying the burden of work, which can hypothetically be improved by designing better spaces. Good architecture can heal a person and develop positive attributes in him/her. To be an architect with moral values, one must have deep appreciation of a human lifestyle and its capacity to adapt from its surroundings. This paper focuses on workplace environment and spaces in Karachi, considering the question how different spaces influence cognition? And is there an ideal architectural space for various kinds of thinking? The paper considers antiquity of the architectural determinism as a theory, and works upon the attributes which can diverge and positively enhance architectural perseverance through the review of archival data, articles, books and historical reference with support of questionnaires. The conclusion points towards the need of architecture to be developed into not just an envelope, but as a space which shapes the behavior, attribute and positivity of its users. Keywords: Architecture and behaviours, Cognitive architecture, work place environment.

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Aberrant Behavior of Employees at Workplace: Conceivable Reasons, Effects and Remedies in Teachings of Qur’ān

Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization ◽

10.32350/jitc.101.17 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (101) ◽

pp. 311-331

Author(s):

Qari Abdul Basit ◽

Hafiz Abdul Rashid ◽

Habib ur Rehman

Keyword(s):

Positive Behavior ◽

Work Place ◽

Maximum Output ◽

Aberrant Behavior ◽

Workplace Environment ◽

Psychological Issues ◽

Unexpected Reaction ◽

The Will ◽

Irregular Behavior

Organizations are always concerned with the behavior of employees. The loyal and positive behavior of employees results in maximum output. It is generally observed that sometimes unwanted response from the employer nourishes the internal anger to the employee.The researchers have conclusively described that such unexpected reaction directly impacts the thinking of an individual causing anxiety and uneasiness in behavior. It gradually becomes a reason for many unwanted incidences by violation of legal and ethical policies.It also affects his interaction with his employer, colleagues, and the property at work place accordingly. Unfortunately, it cannot be denied that extensive research has been done in Psychiatry on finding numerous therapies to treat such kinds of behaviors. However, it is also evident that religion has always had strong effects on human psychology.The faith is directly connected with the will of an individual. Therefore, if an anxious employee is recommended to take guidance from the teachings of the Holy Qur’ān, it will certainly help him to overcome his psychological issues. This research is based upon the possible reasons of irregular behavior, its effects on the workplace environment, and how the teachings of the Holy Qur’ān can be used to rehabilitate affected employees.

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Scale-free architectures support representational diversity

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19002966 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

Author(s):

Chris Fields ◽

James F. Glazebrook

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Architecture ◽

Levels Of Abstraction ◽

Scale Free ◽

Abstract Representations ◽

Computational Architecture ◽

Architectural Models ◽

Cognition Scale

Abstract Gilead et al. propose an ontology of abstract representations based on folk-psychological conceptions of cognitive architecture. There is, however, no evidence that the experience of cognition reveals the architecture of cognition. Scale-free architectural models propose that cognition has the same computational architecture from sub-cellular to whole-organism scales. This scale-free architecture supports representations with diverse functions and levels of abstraction.

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