Abstract
No organisation performs best without good infrastructure and resources. The workplace can refer to the physical or the psychosocial work environment from the individual user and organisation's perspective, differing from one industry to another. This study focuses on the physical work environment from an architectural, interior design and performance perspective in a private higher education institution. Two factors characterise office work: the degree of interaction and the level of individual autonomy. Duffy created four types of offices: hive, cell den, and club based on this concept. Examples of such types of offices are provided within the higher education context. Office workers spend plenty of time inside buildings, where their physical environments directly impact their well-being and work performance and productivity. Buildings, classrooms, computer laboratories, and education infrastructure are crucial learning environments in higher education. There is strong evidence that high-quality infrastructure and resources (facilitates) improves student outcomes and reduce dropout rates, among other benefits. A high-quality teaching and learning environment and students' experience are dependent on classroom resources, libraries, computer labs, and equipment. Maintaining, adapting innovation, repairing existing infrastructure and facilities and investing in new structures and equipment all come with significant expenditures. The question of how to fund such development is becoming increasingly difficult.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0923/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>
Highlights
This study focuses on the physical work environment from an architectural, interior design and performance perspective
3.1 Resources Institutional academic resources come in the form of provisions and resources including the library, computer laboratory, Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) and equipment such as printers and photocopiers, all of which are crucial in providing an effective learning environment in higher education institutions (HEIs)
Infrastructure and resources are integral in facilitating effective teaching and learning and creating friendly learning spaces, as well as in providing quality education
Summary
The Cambridge dictionary defines infrastructure as "the basic systems and services, such as transport and power supplies, that a country or organisation uses in order to work effectively". From this definition, it can be said that infrastructure is the common concept for the provision of the fundamental physical structure of a business, region or country. Concerning a country's infrastructure, this consists of facilities that are available for public use Examples of this include transportation systems: land (rail, road, bus and train stations), air (airports), water (ports) and in addition to this communication networks and the supply of utilities (water, gas, electricity). The author discovered that high achievement is correlated with the use of resources: “the teachers that get their students to learn more and better are those who support their teaching processes with use of didactic resources both traditional and high tech” (Román, 2008, p.214)
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