|
68、“Since the physical work environment affects employee productivity and morale, the employees themselves should have the right to decide how their workplace is designed.”
Towards the widely debated topic whether the employees should be allowed to decide the design of their workplace for their own, some people assert that we should be given the right for this freedom can increase our productivity and morale, while others believe that it easier said than done. In evidence, the issue of whether freedom of the employees to design their workplace, to which different kinds of people hold distinct views due to thier various background, is so hard to prove which is right because there is no universal answer to it, while whether one choice is superior to the other may quite depend on the specific situation. Thus, the speaker's extreme assertion is problematic that every employee should design his or her own workplace.
The first reason for this assertion is that different individuals have distinct preference, which we should see, and thus the we can hardly fulfill every worker's need if they share some common space. A good example may be found in the case that in an open office, where three work share this room, one of them like fume in the room, while other two would feel sick when the fume exist. In this situation, we can easily find it impossible for worker to design their workplaces that include the common room even the right is given. Moreover, the workplace designed by one employee may often bother some others.
What is more prevailing, personal designed workplace in many occasion lead to negative effects of the company. first, the workplace that are changed in favor of every employee is for sure different from one side to the other, this variety suggests informality and to some extend affect the image of the company. A second problem is that personalization usually means the input of a good amount of money, if we can not have the vision that the output can far exceed that huge input, we should not have the workplace personalized. Hence, another equally important aspect is that allowing employees to design the workplace may have the very possibility to create nagetive effects.
Admittedly, it may be true that workplace personalization can raise the employees' morale and productivity, however, this alone does not constitue a sufficient support to this assertion.
All in all, for the reasons discussed above, which sometimes correlate with each other to generate an integrate whole and thus become more convincing than any single one of them, it may be sufficient that allowing the workplace designed by everyone of the employees may generate many negative effects and thus we should limit the right to do so.
| 
京公网安备11010202008513号 京ICP证101109号 京ICP备12012021号
发表于 2004-10-27 16:19:00
楼主
