Examination of the relationship between organisational and facility management strategy and value added
type: CreativeWork
description: Facility Management (FM) is a profession in which facility managers are employed to manage a diverse set of services, personnel, and built environmentsto accomplish organisational goals. The findings of this study showed that many organisations are focusing on achieving strategic goals and objectives withoutconsidering FM as a supportive function of the whole strategic plan. It is generally recognised that the stakeholders who are involved with the organisation shouldexamine that there is a misalignment between FM and strategic management, and the associate need to minimise this misalignment with the contribution of facility management and strategy professionals.The aim of this research was to develop an alignment model in order to examine how value was added by FM services and how they can enable organisationaleffectiveness through perceiving business needs. Four objectives were set for the study: to examine the phenomenon of Facility Management in relation toalignment as a contributor to the organisations’ aim and objectives. This was to assess the role and position of FM and explore some of the challenges and dilemmas occurring within their organisational environment, to explore and analyse the complexities of FM processes and assets in various types of organisations, and finally to develop and validate an alignment model for evaluating the value added through the alignment between FM and theorganisation.The methodology adopted for this research included a combination of literature review, three case studies (with semi-structured interviews) and a web-based questionnaire (WBS), This was in order to identify the alignment between FM and organisation. More specifically, the FM literature review evaluated some classification frameworks of various organisational models presenting an in-depth analysis. The associated web-based questionnaire was designed and circulated among facility managers from different organisations. The total numbers of respondents of the WBS was…
abstract: Facility Management (FM) is a profession in which facility managers are employed to manage a diverse set of services, personnel, and built environmentsto accomplish organisational goals. The findings of this study showed that many organisations are focusing on achieving strategic goals and objectives withoutconsidering FM as a supportive function of the whole strategic plan. It is generally recognised that the stakeholders who are involved with the organisation shouldexamine that there is a misalignment between FM and strategic management, and the associate need to minimise this misalignment with the contribution of facility management and strategy professionals.The aim of this research was to develop an alignment model in order to examine how value was added by FM services and how they can enable organisationaleffectiveness through perceiving business needs. Four objectives were set for the study: to examine the phenomenon of Facility Management in relation toalignment as a contributor to the organisations’ aim and objectives. This was to assess the role and position of FM and explore some of the challenges and dilemmas occurring within their organisational environment, to explore and analyse the complexities of FM processes and assets in various types of organisations, and finally to develop and validate an alignment model for evaluating the value added through the alignment between FM and theorganisation.The methodology adopted for this research included a combination of literature review, three case studies (with semi-structured interviews) and a web-based questionnaire (WBS), This was in order to identify the alignment between FM and organisation. More specifically, the FM literature review evaluated some classification frameworks of various organisational models presenting an in-depth analysis. The associated web-based questionnaire was designed and circulated among facility managers from different organisations. The total numbers of respondents of the WBS was…
author: Karamitsos, I
language: en
date published: 2020
date modified: 2026-07-24T04:26:17Z
provider: U. of Salford
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: U. of Salford