UID:
kobvindex_INT0003782
Format:
135 pages
,
illustrations (black and white), plans
,
25.5 x 19.5 cm
ISBN:
9780566080289
,
0566080281
Content:
"The physical structure and appearance of the workplace determine how we function, how we communicate and collaborate, our motivation levels and company performance, but we often fail to recognize the vital connection between organizational culture and the work environment. Based on the authors' first-hand experience of major change programmes, on studies of offices around the world, and on design management research at De Montfort University, Leicester, this book explains the underlying principles of office design and its effects on cultural change and performance. Part 1 analyses the context and environment of working life, the drivers of change and the barriers - organizational, psychological and structural - to better working practices. Part 2 explores how traditional structures can be rethought and adapted through the reorganization of the workplace and the removal of physical barriers to change. It identifies four typical and disturbingly familiar work environments - Monolith, Makeshift, Modernizer and Mould-Breaker - to help companies understand their current problems and how to solve them. Part 3 introduces six proven workplace layouts: Town Square, Village Neighbourhood, City in Miniature, Space-time Machine, The Campaign Room and the Club; and explains their relative benefits for companies' different needs. These are brought to life with international case studies from the public and private sector which describe how leading organizations have benefited from improved working environments. New Workspace, New Culture is illustrated by the Financial Times cartoonist, Roger Beale. It also includes line drawings of office layouts, and photographs of some of the most productive working environments in the world. This book will help senior management and human resource specialists develop the way people work by changing the working environment. Also, designers, architects, and facility and property managers will find it a perceptive and logical guide to what makes the workplace work, and why."
Note:
Introduction -- REVIEWING THE CONTEXT : The change we face ; Adapting to survive ; Making the link ; An unholy alliance ; Searching for panaceas ; Real lives ; Who needs bureaucrats? ; Prising open government ; The nature of the challenge -- RETHINKING THE CULTURE : Monolith, Makeshift, Modernizer or Mould-breaker? ; Human barriers to progress ; Structural barriers to progress ; New ways to work ; Responding to the challenge -- REDESIGNING THE ENVIRONMENT : Plotting your moves ; Town square ; Village neighbourhoods ; City in miniature ; The space-time machine ; The campaign room ; Welcome to the club ; Managing change -- References and bibliography -- Index
Language:
English
Keywords:
Case studies
;
Handbooks and manuals
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