Work built environment influence on organizational knowledge creation

ABSTRACT

The work environment can contribute for the performance and productivity of workers as well as information transfer among coworkers that, when interacting, make that the knowledge creation happens. Therefore, the objective is to identify the influence of the satisfaction with the built environment on the knowledge creation process in knowledge intense companies of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. A survey research was carried out with a structured questionnaire based on theoretical references related to the study context, and had as target public companies of Rio Grande do Sul that have as common characteristic, intense areas of knowledge. Such research, of exploratory and quantitative feature, had data analyses done with the application of multivariate statistics technics. The results show from the four areas that represent knowledge creation, in this study, built environment satisfaction presented better influence on knowledge creation, which is, better built environments increases information exchange through the use of technology.

Keywords:
Built environment; Built environment satisfaction; Knowledge creation.