Journal
ERGONOMICS
Volume 53, Issue 3, Pages 324-335Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00140130903389019
Keywords
mediating variable; personal control; distraction; workplace; perceived performance
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The purpose of this study was to investigate whether perception of control over aspects of the physical environment reduces the previously documented negative effects of distraction in office workplaces on perceived job performance. This study analysed 384 questionnaires collected from employees in the corporate offices of three manufacturing companies in Michigan, USA. The role of a sense of personal control over physical environment features as a mediating influence between work attitudes and work outcomes was explored using structural equations modelling. The results showed that workers' sense of control over physical aspects of their work environment mediated the relationship between perceived distractions and perceived job performance. These results suggest that increasing perceptions of personal control over features of the physical work environment may serve to link work attitudes and work outcomes.
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