Flexible Working in Scottish Local Authority Property: Developing a Combined Resource Management Strategy

• Authors: Thadsin Khamkanya , Brian Sloan

Title variants

LT

Lankstus Darbas Škotijos Vietos Valdžios Požiūriu: Kuriame Kombinuotą Išteklių Vadybos Strategiją

Abstracts

EN

As indicated in Government reports and previous research, the traditional office environment of both central and local governments has been occupied with high occupancy cost. Flexible working supported by information and communication technology, human resource, and workspace management has emerged as a modern concept for managing office resources. Workspace management models covering both activity-based working area and portfolio flexibility are developed to assist an organisation to allocate staff and working area more flexibly and efficiently. However, public organisations like Scottish Local Authorities (SLAs) are unlikely to fully adopt commercial workspace management models. Therefore, the concept of a combined resource management strategy has been introduced to assist the Authorities in considering adoption in financial/economic terms before taking-up of flexible working in practice.

LT

Kaip rodo Vyriausybės ataskaitos ir ankstesnis tyrimas, ir centrinės, ir vietos valdžios tradiciniuose biuruose daug dėmesio skirta didelėms turto valdymo sąnaudoms. Lankstus grafikas, pagrįstas informacinių ir komunikacinių technologijų, žmogiškųjų išteklių ir darbo vietos vadyba, atsirado kaip modernus biuro išteklių valdymo būdas. Jau yra darbo vietos valdymo modelių, kurie apima ir su veikla susijusią darbo vietą, ir portfelio lankstumą, leidžia organizacijai lanksčiau ir efektyviau paskirstyti darbuotojus bei biurų plotą. Tačiau mažai tikėtina, kad valstybinės organizacijos, pavyzdžiui, Škotijos vietos valdžia, perims nepakeistus komercinius darbo vietos valdymo modelius. Todėl pristatyta kombinuotos išteklių vadybos strategijos idėja, kuri padėtų valdžiai apsvarstyti modelių taikymą finansine ir ekonomine prasme prieš realiai imantis lankstaus darbo.

Keywords

EN

Flexible working; Combined resource management strategy; Scottish local authority

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: International Journal of Strategic Property Management
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 183-202

Contributors

author

Thadsin Khamkanya

• School of Engineering and the Built Environment, Napier University, 10 Colinton Road, Edinburgh, Scotland EH10 5DT, UK

author

Brian Sloan

• School of Engineering and the Built Environment, Napier University, 10 Colinton Road, Edinburgh, Scotland EH10 5DT, UK

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Identifiers

DOI

10.3846/1648-715X.2008.12.183-202