1st Edition

A Handbook of Management Theories and Models for Office Environments and Services

Edited By Rianne Appel-Meulenbroek, Vitalija Danivska Copyright 2022
270 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

270 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Collecting theories to obtain an interdisciplinary understanding of workplace management

Vitalija Danivska and Rianne Appel-Meulenbroek

2. Corporate real estate management maturity model: Joroff et al. one step ahead

Jaap Wijnja, Theo van der Voordt and Jan Gerard Hoendervanger

3. Systems-thinking theory: decision-making for sustainable workplace transformations

Renuka Thakore, Aino Kavantera and Graeme Whitehall

4. St. Gallen Management Model: systemic-constructionist approach to workspace organisations and management

Annette Kämpf-Dern

5. Socio-technical transitions theory: a multi-level and change-oriented perspective on organisational space

Jenni Poutanen

6. Disaster Resilience of Place (DROP) model: a Resilience Assessment and Improvement Framework (RAIF) for facilities managers

Keith G. Jones

7. Strategy-as-Practice: the social effects of workplace design and their impact on unplanned strategic activity

Matthew Thomas

8. Decision-making theory: how a multiple perspective approach can generate workplace strategies

Chiara Tagliaro and Ying Hua

9. Alignment theory: for CRE and workplace

Monique Arkesteijn and Chris Heywood

10. Principal-agent theory: perspectives and practices for effective workplace solutions

Torben Bernhold and Niklas Wiesweg

11. Branding theory contributions to corporate real estate management

Rianne Appel-Meulenbroek and Abdul Jalil Omar

12. Value Adding Management of buildings, workplace, facilities and services

Theo J. M. van der Voordt and Per Anker Jensen

13. The Toyota Production System: applying the concept of waste in real estate management

Tuuli Jylhä

14. Radical innovation theory: towards radical design of digital workplaces

Marko Lahti, Suvi Nenonen, Erkki Sutinen and Nicolas Pope

15. Usability theory: adding a user-centric perspective to workplace management

Lukas Windlinger and Deniz Tuzcuoglu

16. User-centred design thinking: application of UCDT theories to the workplace management

Minyong Kwon and Hilde Remoy

17. Hospitality theory: application of hospitality theory in the work environment

Brenda Groen, Ruth Pijls and Hester van Sprang

18. Service management – focus on customer experience

Vitalija Danivska and Nora Johanne Klungseth

19. Organisational socialisation theory: integrating outsourced FM employees into organisations

Oluwatoyin Yetunde Aderiye

20. Identifying the main constructs for an interdisciplinary workplace management framework

Vitalija Danivska, Rianne Appel-Meulenbroek and Susanne Colenberg

Biography

Dr Vitalija Danivska is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Built Environment at Aalto University, Finland. With a background in real estate economics, she is particularly interested in the real estate business and corporate, facilities management areas. In 2018, she obtained her doctoral degree with her thesis studying the 'Workplace-as-a-Service' concept. She received the EuroFM 2020 Best Paper award, was the runner-up for the 2018 EuroFM Researcher of the Year award, and organized the first TWR conference in 2018 in Tampere, Finland.

Dr Ir Rianne Appel-Meulenbroek is an associate professor in corporate real estate (CRE) and workplace at the Department of the Built Environment at Eindhoven University of Technology. She is Chair of the Transdisciplinary Workplace Research (TWR) network, co-editor of the Journal of CRE, and a regular speaker at international events. In her research, she approaches workplaces as an important strategic resource for knowledge organizations, studying how they should be managed strategically and how workplace design and use aspects impact employee and organizational outcomes.