Undermanning and Architectural Accessibility.

Preliminary results from behavior setting surveys conducted at remote military stations in Alaska for deriving habitability criteria for cold regions military installations reveal the architectural factor of accessibility to significantly influence undermanning. Undermanning is the organizational si...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ledbetter,C. Burgess
Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER N H
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1974
Subjects:
Logistics
Military Facilities and Supplies
Human Factors Engineering & Man Machine System
*MILITARY FACILITIES
*HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING
*ARCTIC REGIONS
PERFORMANCE(HUMAN)
MOTIVATION
ARCHITECTURE
REMOTE AREAS
JOB SATISFACTION
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
*Undermanning
*Behavior settings
Arctic
Alaska
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA001548
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA001548
Description
Summary:Preliminary results from behavior setting surveys conducted at remote military stations in Alaska for deriving habitability criteria for cold regions military installations reveal the architectural factor of accessibility to significantly influence undermanning. Undermanning is the organizational situation in which there are fewer people available to perform any job and hence each person is under pressure to participate. Centralized informal gathering areas, called focal points, were found to be determined by architectural design and appear to influence the degree of undermanning, permitting a reduction in the formal work load.

Similar Items