Managing Organizational Ecologies: Space, Management, and Organizations

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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. Introduction: Space, Management and Organization Keith Alexander and Ilfryn Price Part 1: Organizational Ecologies 1. Organizational Ecologies and Declared Realities Ilfryn Price 2. Workplace Redesign to Support the 'Front End' of Innovation Jeremy Myerson 3. Managing Facilities for Human Capital Value Jacqueline Vischer 4. Facilities in Popular Culture John Hudson 5. Facilitating Creative Environment Birgitte Hoffmann, Peter Munthe-Kaas and Morten Elle 6. Spatial Ecology: Learning and Working Environments that Change People and Organizations Colin Beard Part 2: Social Constructs and Contradictions 7. The Social Construction of FM Communities Ilfryn Price 8. Philosophical Contradictions in FM George Cairns 9. The Usability of Facilities: Experiences And Effects Goran Lindahl, Geir Hansen and Keith Alexander 10. Service-centric Logic of FM Christian Coenen and Daniel von Felten 11. Value Rhetoric and Cost Reality Colin Stuart 12. Ecologies in Existence: Boundaries, Relationships and Dominant Narratives Ian Ellison and John Flowers Part 3: Management Issues 13. Co-creation of Value in FM Keith Alexander 14. FM as a Social Enterprise Kathy Michell 15. Strategies for Communication Melanie Bull and Julie Kortens 16. Educational Implications of an FM Social Constructionist View Kathy Roper Part 4: Applications in Practice 17. Conversational Networks in Knowledge Offices Barry Haynes 18. Creating Effective Learning Environments: Meeting the Challenges Jenny Thomas 19. Dense Networks and Managed Dialogue: The Impact on the Patient Environment Rachel Macdonald 20. Spaces and the Co-Evolution of Practices within a UK Metallurgical Equipment Supplier Dermot Breslin. Reflections Keith Alexander and Ilfryn Price. List of Contributors. Notes. Index