Personality Assessments in Architects’ Offices - An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship between Personality Types, Forms and Productivity in Office Interior

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Empirical investigation into how personality types relate to furniture form choices in architects’ offices, with productivity considered. The study links psychology, architecture, and workplace output rather than emphasizing interaction processes among employees. Data were collected via a self-administered questionnaire from 202 employees using both online and hard-copy formats in architect offices in Iran and India. Results show a significant effect of personality types on employees’ furniture-form preferences, while personality types did not significantly affect productivity; furniture form selections significantly influenced productivity.

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Introduction

Design and form in work environment

Personality assessment in architects’ offices

Creativity and personality

Research focus

Literature Review

Personality and trait patterns

Personality impact on preferences and decisions

Furniture and productivity

Related studies in design contexts

Personality Assessments in Architects’ Offices: An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship between Personality Types, Forms and Productivity in Office Interior Zahra Poursafar1, Lewlyn L. R. Rodrigues2 & Nandineni Rama Devi3 1 Research scholar, Faculty of Architecture, Manipal University 2 Professor, Head, Dept. of Humanities & Management, Manipal University 3 Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Manipal University Correspondence: Zahra Poursafar, Faculty of Architecture, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal University, Manipal, India. Email: [z.poursafar@yahoo.com](z.poursafar@yahoo.com) Received: August 15, 2016 doi:10.5539/mas.v11n1p235 Accepted: September 11, 2016 Online Published: November 22, 2016 URL: [http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/mas.v11n1p235](http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/mas.v11n1p235) Abstract Purpose; this is an empirical research, concerned with the relationship between Personality types and Form of the Furniture, with the productivity consideration. The outcome does not emphasize the interactional processes among employees; it will establish a link between Psychology, Architecture and Productivity. Methodology; the primary data for the survey was collected from a self-administered questionnaire from 202 employees through the online survey and hard copy. The survey study was conducted to the employees of the Architect’s office in Iran and India. Result; the study revealed that Personality types in Architects’ offices has a significant influence on the employees’ preferences regarding Form of the Furniture, but it had not impacted on their Productivity. Besides, Form selections in these offices had a significant influence on the employees’ Productivity. Keywords: personality types, architects’ offices, form, furniture, productivity 1. Introduction Designing of the Form in the work environment is an important issue due to the fact that the individuals’experience of Form has impacts on their perception of the environment. Form is the strong element of design, which refers to everything with shape, size, colour and texture that occupies space, marks position and indicates direction (Wong, 1993) . Form in interior design might describe the outline of the solids (the walls, ground and ceiling) and can define the filling objects (Furniture) which are used for these created empty spaces. Among all these Forms of the Furniture in the individual workstation is the primary concern of this research.The study hypothesized the individuals’perception about the Form of the Furniture in the work environment is changing according to their Personality differences. Architects’ office is a place or set of rooms in which architectural activities related to drawing, planning and consulting are taking place. Personality assessment is helpful in any offices for describing and predicting employees' behaviours, functionality and overall outcomes in the organizations (Ones et al., 2007) . Being aware about the Personality types is important in Architects’ offices, because; Applying the Personality assessment for personnel selection has become popular among the organizations (Anderson, 2007), due to the fact that different Personality types have different potential and internal abilities for undertaking different jobs. Personality assessment provided a data-based and non-subjective approach (Anderson, 2007) to determine high-potential employees who are properly fitted to the architectural practices in the offices. Creativity is an important factor in these offices, simply because successful architectural projects must embrace both aesthetic and utilitarian, so architects need creative minds and proper skills. Many researche indicated that creativity is affected by Personality types (Prabhu et al., 2008; Meneely & Portillo, 2005; Houtz et al., 2003; Helson, 1999; Sheldon, 1995) . In connection with this matter, the present study investigated the importance of Personality types in the Architect

FAQs

What relationship does the study examine between personality and workplace outcomes?

The study examines how personality types relate to preferences and selections regarding the form of furniture in individual workstations, and how these factors relate to employees’ productivity.

How was the survey data collected and from whom?

A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect primary data from 202 employees through online and hard-copy formats, covering architects’ office employees in Iran and India.

What were the main findings about furniture form and productivity?

Personality types significantly influenced employees’ furniture-form preferences but did not significantly impact productivity. In contrast, furniture form selections had a significant influence on employees’ productivity.

Sep 17, 2026

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