Duncan Joiner

Bio: Duncan Joiner is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Space (commercial competition). The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 19 citations.

Equity and Workplace Status: A Field Experiment

Abstract: There can be little doubt about the existence of certain trappings of success in organizations—physical symbols (cf . Good sell, 1977 ) reflecting the organizational status of job incumbents (Steele, 1973). Indeed, previous research has confirmed that certain indicators of status demarcation (cf. Konar & Sundstrom, 1985) , such as large offices (Langdon, 1966), carpeting (Joiner, 1976) , and proximity to windows (Halloran, 1978), are recognized as rewards symbolizing one's high standing in an organizational status hierarchy. Although these environmental rewards typically are associated with relatively highstatus individuals, thereby reinforcing the social order of organizations (Edelman, 1978), there are some occasions in which the status of th e jo b incumbent and th e physical symbols associated with that status are not matched (Wineman, 1982). Such instances may be recognized as cases of status inconsistency, (cf. Stryke r & Macke, 1978) and, as such, reactions to them may be explained by equity theory (e.g., Adams, 1965; Walster , Walster, & Berscheid, 1978).

Physical Barriers, Task Characteristics, and Interaction Activity in Research and Development Firms

Abstract: This research is based on a Ph.D. dissertation completed at Stanford University. I would like to express my deep appreciation to the members of my committee, Jeffrey Pfeffer (Chair), Harold Leavitt, and Jerry Porras. Gerald Salancik and three anonymous ASQ reviewers provided substantial help with earlier drafts of this paper. I would also like to thank Jai Ghorpade, Mark Butler, and Sanford Ehrlich. A field study was used to examine the common belief that barriers around offices are desirable because they reduce interaction, thus allowing more time for accomplishing tasks. If this were true, we would expect to find more interaction in offices with fewer barriers. The opposite was found in the field study conducted in two high-technology firms. Partition height, number of partitions, and the use of a door or a secretary were all positively associated with one or more forms of interaction activity. A desk positioned away from the office entrance was the only barrier found to be negatively associated with interaction. These relationships were independent of variables representing task characteristics, job type, work experience, demographic characteristics and sociability.'

Episode Cognition: Internal Representations of Interaction Routines

Abstract: Publisher Summary This chapter provides a summary and a synthesis of the most recent research on episode cognition to describe some it studies and to outline the most promising prospects and practical implications of this work. It surveys the historical roots of interest in social episodes in psychology and sociology and reviews recent research on situations and episodes in personality, social, cognitive, and clinical psychology. The chapter focuses on the two currently dominant approaches to episode cognition: the sociocultural strategy based on modeling consensual episode spaces and the information processing strategy to study the cognitive and affective factors in episode cognition. In the social consensus approach, research on situation perception; studies of episode domains—subcultural, group, and individual differences in episode cognition; and elements in episode cognition are discussed in the chapter. The practical implications of this work and the prospects of episode research in social psychology are discussed in the chapter.