Managing organizational ecologies : space, management and organizations / edited by Keith Alexander and Ilfryn Price.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alexander, Keith, 1949-

Price, Ilfryn, 1949-

Series:

Routledge studies in innovation, organization and technology ; 22.

Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organization and Technology ; 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Facility management--Environmental aspects.

Facility management.

Work environment.

Office layout.

Building layout.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (509 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 engag

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Space, Management and Organizations; PART I Organizational Ecologies; 1 Organizational Ecologies andDeclared 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 WorkingEnvironments that Change People and Organizations; PART II Social Constructs and Contradictions; 7 The Social Construction of FM Communities

8 Philosophical Contradictions in FM9 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 Environment20 Spaces and the Coevolution of Practices within a UK Metallurgical Equipment Supplier; Reflections; List of Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed May 28, 2013).

ISBN:

1-136-30259-X

1-136-30260-3

0-203-11723-9

9780203117231

OCLC:

843642630