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Article
Facility Management in the Globalized Society
Author(s)
Bartosova Viera, Valaskova Katarina
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2185/2018.05.004
Affiliation(s)
University of Zilina, Zilina, Slovakia
ABSTRACT
Facility management is the multi-disciplinary
kind of work that covers a wide range of various activities, responsibilities,
and knowledge. Facility management provides and manages a variety of support
services in order to prepare all the organisational functions, putting the
accent on an integration of primary activities in strategic, tactical, and
operational levels. In the final decade of the previous century, facility
management industry emerged as one of the fastest growing sectors at the
international level. Nowadays, the importance of the facility management is
readily acknowledged in many companies worldwide, which recognises the
necessity of properly managing elaborate and expensive support facilities. The
tasks are multi-disciplinary and cover a wide range of activities, responsibilities,
and knowledge, because every aspect of an organisation may come under the
competency of the facility management. The main aim of the paper is to point
out the well-founded applicability of the global facility management in
companies, which in order to achieve the competitive advantage correctly
strengthened the corporate core business and shift the support activities into
the management of a specialist in this field. The paper also covers the scope
of the facility management in the international context, and also in the Slovak
Republic, considering the specificities of individual countries.
KEYWORDS
facility management, support process, corporate management, globalization
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