WORK PLAYS AN impressive role in people's lives. People work in physical environments that influence their ability and their propensity to work every day. In general, most people spend the majority of their waking time, more than 33% weekly, in their workplaces, most of them indoors (Singh, 1996 ). This enhances the possibility of the influence of the physical workplace on their health, well-being, and effectiveness. Studies in social and environmental psychology have established that the quality of the physical environment at work has a critical effect on people's attitude and performance (De Croon, Sluiter, Kuijer, & Frings-Dresen, 2005 ;Lee, 2007 ;McGuire & McLaren, 2009 ;Vischer, 2007 ). Therefore, poor workplace design and arrangement has the potential toThe purpose of this article is to provide a review of background information regarding perceived level of personal control over the physical features of the work environment and its impact on individual satisfaction and outcomes. In today's business with the fast growth of technology, e-market development, and innovative methods of communication, the workplace will continue to change rapidly. To control and accommodate these fast changes while sustaining or enhancing outcomes, organizations have increasingly turned to a model of work teams; therefore, employees' skills in working within team environments has been emphasized.To guarantee that the work environment itself supports these new approaches of working, flexible workplaces are often suggested. Open-plan offices offer more flexibility when compared to completely closed and private ones and they are considered to have more capabilities and are, therefore, highly valued in today's industry. Apart from its advantages, open-plan office design does create some problems due to lack of personal control over the work environment, which can negatively affect employees' satisfaction and performance. It is, therefore, important to emphasize the significance of personal control over the physical work environment and the impact of that on employees' satisfaction and outcome.

In this study, the researchers developed and tested a new model of how individual perception about the work environment in open‐plan offices (in terms of personal control and environmental distraction) affect creative outcome through environmental satisfaction and social interaction. The partial least squares of structural equation model (PLS‐SEM) was used to analyze data. The respondents were 238 employees working as programmers and designers in creative mobile industries that are supported by or clustered in creative multimedia companies in a multimedia super corridor in Malaysia. The findings showed that personal control over the work environment has a significant effect on individuals’ satisfaction with the work environment, social interaction, and creative outcome. The results also indicated that environmental distraction has no significant effect on creative outcome. Managers, space designers, and architects can use the knowledge of this study to give building users as much control as they need to positively affect their work behavior and outcome.

The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the background information regarding to the impact of personal control over the physical work environment on satisfaction with work environment and creativity at work. Today creativity has a significant and special place in business especially in innovative organizations which need creative people to generate new, and useful ideas for produce new products, services, work methods, systems etc. Moreover the design and appearance of workspace and individual ability to control the ambient conditions of the workplace have significant effect on their behavior, satisfaction and overall outcome including creativity. So the result of this study will contribute towards enhancing the understanding of the effect of office design to enhance employees' creativity.

The purpose of this study is to identify the impact of daylight on students‘ learning performance within learning environments. Since, learning plays an important role in people‘s life; having suitable and appropriate learning place seems very important an essential. It can motivate people to learn more and better. Learning environment includes all schools, universities or other places even libraries where people study there. Well designed learning palaces make students happy and energize and vice versa. In general, lighting in an environment is one of the necessary and important elements which have direct impact on people‘s performance. Apart from all indoor (artificial) light profits, natural light itself has more benefits on peoples‘ health and wellbeing. Having aptwindows in classrooms are very important for having appropriate daylight, and also outside viewing. This connection with outside can provide significant physical and physiological benefits for users especially students. In this study the researchers try to identify the importance of daylight in learning places and discover the influence of that on students‘ learning performance. The result that comes from this study indicates that applying daylight in learning environment is very essential, but students feel and understand that while they involved with that. This paper is a review paper which came for a master thesis. Researchers review that to find support for the hypothesis that applying daylight in classrooms affects and enhances students‘ learning performance.

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