Workplace by Design: Mapping the High-Performance Workscape (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series) - Softcover

Becker, Franklin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787900478 ISBN 13: 9780787900472

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1995

Synopsis

Create workspace that supports business strategies Space is an organization's second most valuable asset. Yet little attention is paid to how it supports the new ways in which today's organizations operate-teamwork, flattened hierarchies, telecommuting, collaborating across functions. Workplace by Design shows CEOs and managers alike how to put aside and rethink conventional, awkward notions of space utilization based on hierarchy and status-notions that pit people against each other in turf wars, tear apart teams, and tie up company cash. Using illustrative examples from Digital Equipment Corporation, Steelcase, and others, the authors show how team environments, non-territorial offices and other strategies can support business objectives, energize employees, and produce a more competitive organization.

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Review

"Workplace by Design provides executive leadership with thenecessary expert advice and technical guidance to deliver andmanage the new workplaces in a way that matches exceptional costsavings 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 leavesoff. It poses a case for a leader to contemplate his or her companyas an 'ecosystem' and to reframe issues of the employee environmentas 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 ofinteresting perspectives on organisational consulting (TheOccupational Psychologist, December 2002)

From the Back Cover

When Hurricane Andrew smashed through Burger King's world headquarters in Miami, it destroyed "Mahogany Row," a floor of imposing executive suites. In the aftermath, everyone from managers and telephone operators to the CEO found themselves in sneakers and jeans, working in the unsheltered space of a prefab office. This makeshift building so stimulated the business that Burger King changed its workspace and forever relinquished its territorial office hierarchy.
Space is an organization's second most valuable asset. Yet little attention is paid to how it supports the new ways in which today's organizations operate---teamwork, flattened hierarchies, telecommuting, collaborating across functions. Workplace by Design shows CEOs and managers alike how to put aside and rethink conventional, awkward notions of space utilization based on hierarchy and status--notions that pit people against each other in turf wars, tear apart teams, and tie up company cash. Using illustrative examples from Digital Equipment Corporation, Steelcase, and others, the authors show how team environments, non-territorial offices and other strategies can support business objectives, energize employees, and produce a more competitive organization.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0787900478
• ISBN 13: 9780787900472
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248