Overview

Create workspace that supports business strategies Space is an organization's second most valuable asset. Yet littleattention is paid to how it supports the new ways in which today'sorganizations operate---teamwork, flattened hierarchies,telecommuting, collaborating across functions. Workplace by Designshows CEOs and managers alike how to put aside and rethinkconventional, awkward notions of space utilization based onhierarchy and status--notions that pit people against each other inturf wars, tear apart teams, and tie up company cash. Usingillustrative examples from Digital Equipment Corporation,Steelcase, and others, the authors show how team environments,non-territorial offices and other strategies can support businessobjectives, energize employees, and produce a more competitiveorganization.

Full Product Details

Author:   Franklin Becker ,  Fritz Steele
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 19.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.653kg
ISBN:  

9780787900472

ISBN 10:   0787900478
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   07 April 1995
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Part One: The Workspace as a Tool for Achieving Goals. 1. Space: The Organizations Second Most Expensive Resource. 2. Understanding Organizational Ecology. 3. Rethinking Status, Identity, and Space. 4. Designing to Accommodate Change. 5. Making Space for Teamwork. 6. Creating a Healthy Environment. 7. Supporting Remote Work. 8. Making Effective Use of Non-Territorial Offices. 9. Developing an Integrated Workplace Strategy. Part Two: Putting Space to Work. 10. Up-Front Planning: Launching a Vision-Driven Workplace. 11. The Role of Leadership: Championing the Workplace Vision. 12. Quality and Return on Investment: Spending Money Where It WillMake a Difference. 13. Making It Happen: Turning Workplace Vision Into Reality.

Reviews

...A very readable and practical book...Offers a number of interesting perspectives on organisational consulting... (The Occupational Psychologist, December 2002)

Workplace by Design provides executive leadership with the necessary expert advice and technical guidance to deliver and manage the new workplaces in a way that matches exceptional cost savings with extraordinary organizational effectiveness. Michael A. Bell, director, Corporate Real Estate, The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation This book picks up where Handy's The Age of Unreason leaves off. It poses a case for a leader to contemplate his or her company as an 'ecosystem' and to reframe issues of the employee environment as akey strategic function and not a tactical after thought. Laurie Coots, director of Business Development, Chiat/Day ??A very readable and practical book?Offers a number of interesting perspectives on organisational consulting?? (The Occupational Psychologist, December 2002)

Author Information

FRANKLIN BECKER is director of the International Workplace Studies Program at Cornell University and president of Becker-Sims Associates, Inc. FRITZ STEELE was formerly on the faculty of Yale and Harvard Universities, and is a principal and founder of the Portsmouth Consulting Group.

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