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Rethinking Sustainability in Facilities and Workplace Management
This book discusses sustainability within the facility management industry. However, it is not another anthology of so-called best practices and the seemingly endless range of certification schemes. It is also not a (marketing) guide on how to communicate high-pitched sustainability ambitions to potential customers to increase (short-term) market share. Instead, this book is based on the realisation that most facility management businesses and departments actually find it hard to truly integrate sustainability into their strategies, tactics and day-to-day operations in a coherent way. It is also based on the reference point that sustainable development cannot be realised only through technol...
A Handbook of Management Theories and Models for Office Environments and Services
Although workplace design and management are gaining more and more attention from modern organizations, workplace research is still very fragmented and spread across multiple disciplines in academia. There are several books on the market related to workplaces, facility management (FM), and corporate real estate management (CREM) disciplines, but few open up a theoretical and practical discussion across multiple theories from different disciplines. Therefore, workplace researchers are not aware of all the angles from which workplace management and effects of workplace design on employees has been or could be studied. A lot of knowledge is lost between disciplines, and sadly, many insights do ...
A Handbook of Theories on Designing Alignment Between People and the Office Environment
Although workplace design and management are gaining more and more attention from modern organizations, workplace research is still very fragmented and spread across multiple disciplines in academia. There are several books on the market related to workplaces, facility management (FM), and corporate real estate management (CREM) disciplines, but few open up a theoretical and practical discussion across multiple theories from different fields of studies. Therefore, workplace researchers are not aware of all the angles from which workplace management and effects of workplace design on employees has been or could be studied. A lot of knowledge is lost between disciplines, and sadly, many insigh...
Methodological Approaches for Workplace Research and Management
This book explores a wide range of methodological approaches to examining various forms of workplace physical environments. It focuses on pressing questions regarding the relationship between the spatial component of the workplace, including its progressive hybridisation with other physical and virtual places, and its users, be they public organisations, private companies, or start-up businesses and solopreneurs. International contributors address a range of methods that are applicable both in research and practice to confront the most cutting-edge workplace-related issues. The assumption is that work has been changing, thanks to the virtualisation of many activities, and that homeworking an...
Routledge Handbook of High-Performance Workplaces
This timely book focuses on an overview of the fundamentals behind high-performance workplaces underpinning occupants’ satisfaction, health, and productivity. To this end, it covers human, environmental, and organisational aspects proven to be of great relevance to the design of high-performance workplaces. Perhaps most significantly it looks at these characteristics both before and after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. From the exodus from private offices to the rise of open-plan workplaces, where, how and when people work was changing rapidly pre-COVID. Post-COVID, pandemic-imposed restrictions banished workers from offices into their homes fast, leaving organisation scrambling to ke...
Disruptive Workplaces
Disruptive Workplaces offers a fresh perspective on facility management (FM) and workplace design, adapted to the rapid changes of our times. This book presents a practical, step-by-step approach for creating a sustainable and future-proof work environment. Whether you are a facility manager, HR manager, Chief Happiness Officer, or a member of the management team, you will find relatable international examples and gain valuable tips & tricks. With an easy-to-follow plan, this book guides you towards effective change. 'This book provides an insightful view of what facility management is today but also shows a glimpse of what to expect in the future. It offers examples and many use cases by experts from all over Europe and the Middle East. A must read for FMs and anybody who has a link to the industry, whether you are just starting your career or are a well-experienced FM professional.'- Lara Paemen, Managing Director IFMA EMEA
Workspace Made Easy
Demystifying the entire workspace industry, for the non-expert and expert alike, this unique book sets out every step and consideration in how to lead a project to create a fantastic workspace. Entirely free of baffling jargon and industry-speak, it’s a refreshingly accessible, practical, down-to-earth guide applicable to all types of workspace, new or renovated and anywhere in the world. Created by two leading workspace practitioners with over half a century of combined multi-sector international experience, this book maps the process from initial idea to finished product and beyond in a succinct, logical and easy-to-follow question and answer style. It helps the reader instantly become a better project leader, and, for all those firms they’ll deal with, a more informed and prepared client. Supported by amusing and informative true stories throughout, the book is an indispensable guide that is sure to become an industry standard.
The Smart Building Advantage
The Smart Building Advantage introduces and explores the fascinating world of cutting-edge technology, sustainable design, and the incredible potential of smart buildings. This book is a roadmap to understanding the transformative power of smart building technologies and how they can deliver an astonishing return on investment.
The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of Working Spaces
This edited volume presents a compendium of emerging and innovative studies on the proliferation of new working spaces (NeWSps), both formal and informal (such as coworking spaces, maker spaces, fab labs, public libraries, and coffee shops), and their role during and following the COVID-19 pandemic in urban and regional development and planning. This book presents an original, interdisciplinary approach to NeWSps through three features: (i) situating the debate in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has transformed NeWSp business models and the everyday work life of their owners and users; (ii) repositioning and rethinking the debate on NeWSps in the context of socioeconomics and pla...
Organizing Industrial Activities Across Firm Boundaries
The way in which industrial activities are organised among firms is a fundamental theoretical concern. In practice, firms have found these matters, referred to as make-or-buy issues, difficult to analyse. Organising Industrial Activities Across Firm Boundaries succeeds in combining an analysis of the theoretical background to such issues with an in-depth case study of the practical consequences and implications. The book is an important contribution to the literature on networks, business relationships, out-sourcing and the division of labour.
