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Beyond the Hawthorne Research: Relationship Between IT Company Employees’ Perceived Physical Work Environment and Creative Behavior

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This study has demonstrated the relationship between IT company employees’ perception of the organizational physical work environment, psychological well-being as a psychological factor, and creative behavior. The research has not differentiated physical work environment from psychological factors as was the case with the existing Hawthorne research, and verified their combined effects. Through this work, the study has demonstrated that perceived physical work environment has a significant effect on creative behavior and that psychological well-being as a psychological factor, which has been discussed separately from the physical work environment, mediates between physical work environment and creative behavior. The study has also discussed implications of these findings and others.

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    Jin-Hua Zhang & Jun-Ho Lee

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Zhang, JH., Lee, JH. (2020). Beyond the Hawthorne Research: Relationship Between IT Company Employees’ Perceived Physical Work Environment and Creative Behavior. In: Lee, R. (eds) Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications. SERA 2019. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 845. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24344-9_9

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