Document Type : Scientific - Research
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1 Shiraz university
2 Shiraz University
Abstract
- The research environment plays a major role in students’ satisfaction and productivity. So far, many studies have tried to identify factors that affect student satisfaction and productivity, but they have not addressed the most important environmental factors. In this paper, we explored different environmental factors of computer students at one of the Shiraz University labs. For this purpose, we used mixed methods of multiple stage research design. At first 14 students were interviewed in various computer majors. As a result, the most important environmental factors were the ability to communicate with supervisors and other students, noises, social norms and signals, cleanliness, view, and light. A survey was designed based on interviews and previous work factors with alpha Cronbach 85%. Then, the survey was sent to 175 students and received 73 responses. Survey’s data analyzed at two levels of descriptive statistics and statistical models. Statistical models were built for satisfaction with the work environment and perceived productivity. In the satisfaction model, a specific place in the lab and the ability to communicate with the supervisor were important factors among others. In productivity models light, communicating with supervisor, overall satisfaction, and social norms were important factors.
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Feldman, D. C. (1984). The development and enforcement of group norms. Academy of Management Review, 9(1), 47–53.
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Graziotin, D., Fagerholm, F., Wang, X., & Abrahamsson, P. (2017). On the unhappiness of software developers. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 324–333.
Graziotin, D., Wang, X., & Abrahamsson, P. (2015). Do feelings matter? On the correlation of affects and the self-assessed productivity in software engineering. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, 27(7), 467–487.
Graziotin, D., Wang, X., & Abrahamsson, P. (2013). Are happy developers more productive? International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement, 50–64.
Guest, G., Bunce, A., & Johnson, L. (2006). How many interviews are enough? An experiment with data saturation and variability. Field Methods, 18(1), 59–82.
Haynes, B. P. (2007). Office productivity: a theoretical framework. Journal of Corporate Real Estate.
Jazayeri, M. (2004). The education of a software engineer. Proceedings. 19th International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2004., xviii–xxvii.
Johnson, B., Zimmermann, T., & Bird, C. (2019). The Effect of Work Environments on Productivity and Satisfaction of Software Engineers. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
Judge, T. A., Thoresen, C. J., Bono, J. E., & Patton, G. K. (2001). The job satisfaction–job performance relationship: A qualitative and quantitative review. Psychological Bulletin, 127(3), 376.
Kan, S. H. (2002). Metrics and models in software quality engineering. Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc.
Kelly, A. (2014). The prototype of future knowledge workers. Apr.
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Kuh, G. D., Kinzie, J. L., Buckley, J. A., Bridges, B. K., & Hayek, J. C. (2006). What matters to student success: A review of the literature (Vol. 8). National Postsecondary Education Cooperative Washington, DC.
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Lee, A. (2008). How are doctoral students supervised? Concepts of doctoral research supervision. Studies in Higher Education, 33(3), 267–281.
Locke, E. A. (1976). The nature and causes of job satisfaction. Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
McIntosh, S., Kamei, Y., Adams, B., & Hassan, A. E. (2014). The impact of code review coverage and code review participation on software quality: A case study of the qt, vtk, and itk projects. Proceedings of the 11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 192–201.
Meyer, A. N., Fritz, T., Murphy, G. C., & Zimmermann, T. (2014). Software developers’ perceptions of productivity. Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, 19–29.
Miles, A. K. (2000). The ergonomics and organizational stress relationship. Florida State University.
Nielsen., C. (2016). How microsoft used an office move to boost collaboration. Harvard Business Review.
O’Neill, M. J. (1994). Work space adjustability, storage, and enclosure as predictors of employee reactions and performance. Environment and Behavior, 26(4), 504–526.
Obuku, E. A., Lavis, J. N., Kinengyere, A., Ssenono, R., Ocan, M., Mafigiri, D. K., Ssengooba, F., Karamagi, C., & Sewankambo, N. K. (2018). A systematic review on academic research productivity of postgraduate students in low-and middle-income countries. Health Research Policy and Systems, 16(1), 86.
Oldham, G. R. (1988). Effects of changes in workspace partitions and spatial density on employee reactions: A quasi-experiment. Journal of Applied Psychology, 73(2), 253.
Oldham, G. R., & Brass, D. J. (1979). Employee reactions to an open-plan office: A naturally occurring quasi-experiment. Administrative Science Quarterly, 267–284.
Pascarella, E. T., & Terenzini, P. T. (2005). How college affects students: A third decade of research. Volume 2. ERIC.
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Pike, G. R. (1993). The relationship between perceived learning and satisfaction with college: An alternative view. Research in Higher Education, 34(1), 23–40.
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Solinas, G., Masia, M. D., Maida, G., & Muresu, E. (2012). What really affects student satisfaction? An assessment of quality through a university-wide student survey. Creative Education, 3(1), 37–40.
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Waltz, C. F., & Bausell, B. R. (1981). Nursing research: design statistics and computer analysis. Davis FA.
Zhou, M., & Mockus, A. (2010). Developer fluency: Achieving true mastery in software projects. Proceedings of the Eighteenth ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, 137–146.
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