Format:
1 online resource (285 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415896993
,
9781136302602
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology Series
Content:
The term Facilities Management has become global but fraught with confusion as to what the term signifies. For some, notably in the USA, Facilities Management remains a discipline of human ecology. Elsewhere the term has become conflated with an alternative meaning: providing or outsourcing the provision of various services essential to the operation of particular buildings. This volume redresses that imbalance to remind Facilities Management of its roots, presenting evidence of Facilities Management success stories that engage the wider objectives of the organizations they serve, and engaging students, scholars and critical practitioners of general management with an appreciation of the power and influence of physical space and its place in the theory and practice of organizations
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Forewords -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Space, Management and Organizations -- PART I Organizational Ecologies -- 1 Organizational Ecologies and Declared Realities -- 2 Workplace Redesign to Support the 'Front End' of Innovation -- 3 Managing Facilities for Human Capital Value -- 4 Facilities in Popular Culture -- 5 Facilitating Creative Environment -- 6 Spatial Ecology: Learning and Working Environments that Change People and Organizations -- PART II Social Constructs and Contradictions -- 7 The Social Construction of FM Communities -- 8 Philosophical Contradictions in FM -- 9 The Usability of Facilities: Experiences and Effects -- 10 Service-Centric Logic of FM -- 11 Value Rhetoric and Cost Reality -- 12 Ecologies in Existence: Boundaries, Relationships and Dominant Narratives -- PART III Management Issues -- 13 Co-Creation of Value in FM -- 14 FM as a Social Enterprise -- 15 Strategies for Communication -- 16 Educational Implications of an FM Social Constructionist View -- PART IV Applications in Practice -- 17 Conversational Networks in Knowledge Offices -- 18 Creating Effective Learning Environments: Meeting the Challenges -- 19 Dense Networks and Managed Dialogue: The Impact on the Patient Environment -- 20 Spaces and the Coevolution of Practices within a UK Metallurgical Equipment Supplier -- Reflections -- List of Contributors -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Alexander, Keith Managing Organizational Ecologies Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2012 ISBN 9780415896993
Language:
English
Keywords:
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