Research Catalog

Title

Workplace by design : mapping the high-performance workscape / Franklin Becker, Fritz Steele.

Author

Becker, Franklin D.

Publication

San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

Steele, Fritz.

Description

xvi, 228 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• Space is an organization's second most valuable resource, yet little attention is paid to how it supports the new ways of working or the high-performance business strategies driving corporations today. In Workplace by Design, Franklin Becker and Fritz Steele address the missing link for a successfully reengineered organization: the reengineered office.
• With graphic illustrations and examples from Levi Strauss, Chrysler Corporation, Steelcase, Chiat/Day and others, the authors show how to plan, design, and manage a total workplace in which space is a tool for achieving business goals, not a drain on profits.
• They demonstrate how managers, executives, human resource specialists, and design consultants can keep the physical work setting from undermining the success of workplace initiatives - such as teamwork, telecommuting, and cross-functional collaboration - that encourages high performance.
• Workplace by Design illustrates how companies have treated effective alternative workplace strategies and successfully put aside conventionally awkward notions of space - based on hierarchy and status - that separate teammates, pit departments against each other in turf wars, and tie up company cash.
• The book shows, for example, how Aetna Life and Casualty adapts to department reorganizations by utilizing one-size-fits-all workstations with furniture tailored to different functions; how IBM enhances productivity by equipping salespeople with home fax machines and laptop computers that keep them connected to their customers; how Apple Computer stimulates the creativity of its research and development team with informal and lively break areas.
• Workplace by Design shows how diverse companies have implemented total workplace strategy to effectively involve designers, consultants and internal staff in diagnosing and solving space problems.

Series Statement

The Jossey-Bass management series

Uniform Title

Jossey-Bass management series.

Subjects

• Office layout
• Work environment
• Organizational behavior

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p.221-222) and index.

Contents

1. Space: The Organization's 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 Nonterritorial Offices -- 9. Developing an Integrated Workplace Strategy -- 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 Will Make a Difference -- 13. Making it Happen: Turning Workplace Vision into Reality.

ISBN

0787900478 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

94032960

OCLC

• 503434342
• ocn503434342

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries