Workspace strategies environment as a tool for work
We live in era of transformation--of technology, of social values, and of the way work is done. This book represents a timely and innovative ad dition to current thinking and writing about transformation in organiza tions. In order to meet an increasingly global and competitive environment, organiza...
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Dordrecht [Holanda] :
Springer Science+Business Media
[2016]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Corporate Excellence in Facilities: Why the Workplace is Important
- The Organization-Accommodation (O-A) Relationship
- Adding Value to the O-A Relationship
- The Unexamined O-A Relationship Is Not Worth Having
- Changing Building Design
- Economic and Social Pressures on the O-A Relationship
- Workspace: Asset or Liability?
- 2 Managing Environmental Quality: Current Trends in Office Occupancy
- What Does Facilities Management (FM) Mean Today?
- Integrating FM With Business Strategy
- The Impact on Space Use of Changing Trends in the Nature of Work
- Managing the Human Aspect
- Current Trends and the Human Aspect
- 3 Using Occupancy Feedback: A Strategy for Managing Workplace Improvements
- Health Risks in the Office
- The Productivity Debate
- Feedback from Building Occupants
- Total Quality and Customer Satisfaction
- Functional Comfort as a Strategic Planning Concept
- Managing Feedback from Building Occupants
- 4 Building-In-Use Assessment: An Occupancy Feedback System
- How Building-In-Use Assessment Works
- An Introduction to Building-In-Use Assessment
- Carrying Out Building-In-Use Assessment
- Applying BIU Results to Problem Solving
- Communication with Occupants
- Builidng-In-Use Assessment in Practice
- Using Feedback for Continuous Improvement
- 5 Building-In-Use Assessment of Building Systems: Air Quality, Thermal Comfort, and Building Noise Control
- Building Systems' Dimensions of Functional Comfort
- The Air Quality Dilemma
- The Thermal Comfort Paradox
- The Quandary of Building Noise Control
- How Building Systems Can Increase Functional Comfort
- 6 Building-In-Use Assessment of Planning and Design of Interior Space: Spatial Comfort, Privacy, and Office Noise Control
- Factors Influencing the Design of Space for Work
- The Spatial Comfort Crisis
- Building-In-Use Assessment of Spatial Comfort
- The Privacy Conundrum
- The Challenge of Office Noise Control
- The Future of the Individual Workplace
- 7 Building-In-Use Assessment of Lighting Comfort
- The Lighting Comfort Opportunity
- Building-In-Use Assessment of Lighting Comfort
- Human Factors in Lighting
- Lighting and Morale
- Windows and Daylighting
- Improving Lighting Comfort
- 8 Building Convenience and Building Amenities
- What Is Building Convenience?
- Building-In-Use Assessment of Building Convenience
- Measuring Building Convenience
- Building Amenities and the Future of Building Convenience
- 9 Occupants' Feedback as a Decision-Making Tool: Three Case Studies
- Organizational Learning Through the Acquisition of Feedback
- International Headquarters Offices: Conflicts Over Information Utilization
- National Telecommunications Company: Diagnostic Information as a Tool for Strategic Planning
- Commercial Real Estate Company: Using Feedback to Increase Competitive Advantage
- Devising Corporate Accommodation Strategy
- 10 The Politics of Occupants' Feedback: Issues in Implementation
- Applying Occupant Feedback
- Legal and Political Issues
- Improving Communication
- Environmental Empowerment: Are We Ready?
- 11 Optimizing Occupancy: Strategic Planning of the Organization-Accommodation Relationship
- Accommodation Strategy and the O-A Relationship
- Planning the Future of the O-A Relationship
- Corporate Accommodation as a 'Strategic Functional Unit'
- Using Accommodation to Add Value to Products and Services
- Reengineering the Office as a Tool for Work
- Implementation of an 'Integrated Workplace Strategy'
- Final Words
- Appendix: The Buiding-In-Use Databases and How They are Used
