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Author Alexander, Keith

Title Managing Organizational Ecologies : Space, Management, and Organizations
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (509 pages)
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
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
Notes Print version record
Subject Facility management -- Environmental aspects
Work environment.
Office layout.
Building layout.
Building layout
Office layout
Work environment
Form Electronic book
Author Price, Ilfryn
ISBN 9781136302602
1136302603