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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">411</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>EVALUATION OF MYERS-BRIGGS PERSONALITY TRAITS IN OFFICES AND ITS EFFECTS ON PRODUCTIVITY OF EMPLOYEES: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Poursafar</surname><given-names>Zahra</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Devi</surname><given-names>Nandineni Rama</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Rodrigues</surname><given-names>Lewlyn L. R.</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>11</day><month>11</month><year>2015</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>53</fpage><lpage>58</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Background: Office design after physical requirement has a second concern which belongs to Psychology. The concept of Psychology and office spaces is a prominent issue for designers when planning stages of a redesign or a new workspace. Offices or workspaces today are an evolution of sorts affected by the truly diverse mixture of architectural and psychological elements which are working together in the same space.&#13;
Aim: The focus of first part of this research is to identify the employee__ampersandsignrsquo;s Personality type in Architect__ampersandsignrsquo;s offices in two Asian countries; Iran and India. The second part of the study investigates the existing productivity of employees to identify the influence of Personality types.&#13;
Methodology: The good-quality data has been collected from a well- designed questionnaire. The mode of the delivery was through the online questionnaire and hardy copy ones.&#13;
Result: The findings of this study explore the dominant Personality type in Architect__ampersandsignrsquo;s offices and also reveal that productivity in an Architect__ampersandsignrsquo;s office interior is affected by employee__ampersandsignrsquo;s Personality types.&#13;
Conclusions: Designers benefit from knowing occupant__ampersandsignrsquo;s Personality types. Since each Personality types have own characteristics, needs and desires, then outcome of the study could be used as a guideline for designer to have a more successful project. Differences between Personality types would have positive and negative effects on their Productivity. The results would help designers to improve the physical environment of office suits to occupant__ampersandsignrsquo;s wishes.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Psychology</kwd><kwd> Personality types</kwd><kwd> Architect’s office</kwd><kwd> Productivity</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
