Workplace Design Features, Job Satisfaction, and Organization Commitment

• Published in: SAGE open Vol. 7; no. 3
• Main Authors: Bangwal, Deepak, Tiwari, Prakash, Chamola, Pankaj
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01-07-2017; SAGE Publishing
• Subjects: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED); workplace design feature; green building; JST and organization commitment
• ISSN: 2158-2440; 2158-2440
• DOI: 10.1177/2158244017716708

Of late, there has been growing awareness among organizations as to the importance of green issues. This article seeks to examine how workplace design features of a green building contribute to the formation of employee organization commitment (OCM) through better job satisfaction (JST) within employees. Based on a comprehensive literature review, a theoretical model was proposed for investigation. Three putative paths linking workspace (WSP) to JST, departmental space (DSP) to JST, and JST to OCM were then tested relying on a survey data of 356 employees collected from three Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)-certified companies, namely Indian Tobacco Company (ITC), Suzlon Energy Ltd, and Olympia Technology Park uses structural equation modeling (SEM) methodology as prescribed by Hair et al. Significant evidences were witnessed in support of all three purposed paths. The study drew data only from the green-certified organization. Future research should involve other green organization or larger sample of green building. The size and character of the sample were restricted by organizational constraints.